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Political Currency

Labour’s Straitjacket Manifesto

Political Currency

Persephonica

Money, Politics, Economy, News, Ed Balls, Business, George Osborne, Westminster

4.11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

After a rocky moment over his support of Jeremy Corbyn, Keir Starmer was determined to get his campaign back on track with the launch of his manifesto. George Osborne asks what it tells us about a potential incoming Labour government and Ed Balls warns it could be a financial straitjacket, making life for the party ‘very difficult’. 


Meanwhile, Rishi Sunak suffered a series of embarrassing media gaffes this week. Has bad polling sealed his fate or can he do anything to turn things around now?


And in America, President Biden’s son Hunter is facing prison after being found guilty on criminal gun charges. What does it mean in the race for the White House?


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0:00.0

BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like developing offshore wind,

0:06.1

and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. Well today we're mostly in oil and gas.

0:16.0

We increased the proportion of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in

0:26.0

2023.

0:28.0

B.com slash and not all. This episode is brought to you by G.S.K.

0:35.0

We're lucky to live in a time when many of us can access medicine when we become ill,

0:38.5

but even better than recovering from being unwell is not getting ill in the first place.

0:43.2

Yes, G.S.K believes that prevention is the best medicine and that's why they've built one of the

0:48.2

broadest vaccine portfolios in the world.

0:50.6

G.S.K. say that prevention to them means pioneering new medicines to reduce HIV transmission

0:56.2

or stopping chronic conditions from progressing to more serious complications.

1:00.4

That's because preventing disease is the best possible outcome for all of us and that's why G.S.K.

1:05.8

Unites science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

1:09.6

Visit gsk.com to learn more. This is political currency with Ed Bulls and George Osbourne. So we're back halfway through the general election. Do you know I thought I'd seen it all?

1:44.0

The parliamentary private secretary to the Prime Minister, a Welsh MP,

1:49.6

is being investigated by the gambling commission for betting on the date of the election three days

1:54.2

before it was announced.

1:55.1

I mean, do you think he had some inside information?

1:59.7

He said, Craig Williams is a perfectly nice guy, but he says he is being investigated by the gambling

2:04.3

commission which is apparently routine when you go and put a flutter on something.

2:08.7

Have you a bet on an election or politics or anything?

2:11.2

I have once done a political bet. In 1997 I did a bet on the number of seats that the Tory party would retain in Scotland. It was called the Tartan Tory bet and needless to say for those who

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