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🗓️ 27 June 2024
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After 14 years in opposition, Britain’s Labour Party is on track for a comprehensive win in next week’s general election. We profile Keir Starmer, its leader, asking whether his modus operandi can turn the country around, too. Despite the obvious distractions phones represent, Americans want their children to have them in schools (10:50). And auction houses get into the business of “art-based lending” (16:40).
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| 0:00.0 | BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like designing two hydrogen plants, |
| 0:06.2 | and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. |
| 0:13.0 | While today we're mostly in oil and gas we increased the proportion of our |
| 0:16.8 | global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other |
| 0:19.8 | transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in 2023. |
| 0:26.4 | BP.com slash and not all. The Economist. |
| 0:37.0 | Hello and welcome'm Jason Palmer. |
| 0:45.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:47.0 | And I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 0:49.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:53.4 | Phones in the classroom are disruptive and undermine learning. |
| 0:59.2 | Schools hate the devices, children love them. |
| 1:02.3 | But in America, why is it parents who are People hate the devices, children love them. |
| 1:02.7 | But in America, why is it parents who are particularly keen that their kids carry mobiles? |
| 1:09.7 | And fine art hasn't been doing so well at auction recently, but don't worry, you can now enjoy |
| 1:15.0 | your Picasso sketches and make money out of them. If you can't sell it, auction houses are now |
| 1:20.4 | letting you borrow against it. First up though. It's one week out from Britain's general election and for the |
| 1:40.7 | labor party that's widely I I mean really, really widely |
| 1:44.1 | predicted to come out on top, this moment now seems like distant history. |
| 1:48.4 | Six minutes past five in the morning and we are now in a position to say that this election of |
| 1:56.2 | 2019 formally has been won by the Conservatives. In the election five years ago, Labor got trounced. The final result, a |
| 2:06.0 | landslide 80 seat majority for the Conservative or Tory Party. |
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