Losing control of migration?
Political Currency
Persephonica
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🗓️ 23 November 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
The Autumn Statement continues to ripple through Westminster, and a new energy price cap puts the cost of living back into the spotlight. As the Chancellor continues his media rounds and Labour weighs in with their response, Ed and George share their experiences of the political traps set by big budget shakeups.
Meanwhile, immigration is the big topic around the world today, as new migration figures are released in the UK, and elections are won in the Netherlands and Argentina over the issue. So just how can a government show they’re taking immigration concerns seriously while still filling jobs?
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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. Osbore. Right, good to have you back, back as part of the duet after you've been conducting various orchestras around Britain. |
| 1:47.0 | It was a choir not an orchestra and it was very stressful and very exhilarating. I would say standing in front of the BBC singers for a live conducting performance was even tougher than being in the House of Commons facing Conservative backbenchers in the |
| 2:04.9 | autumn statement. |
| 2:06.3 | And you're right, we're back, two days running. |
| 2:09.1 | Yesterday a hot take on the autumn statement and now back again for our regular podcast got to say though great news this week we found out |
| 2:16.6 | that the 1922 committee the Conservative backchers, listened to our podcast because it was reported that David Cameron |
| 2:27.2 | went along to address the backbenchers, the new Foreign Secretary, and he's asked, is George Osborne right on the podcast to say that David Cameron will have |
| 2:37.1 | no truck with leaving the E.C.R. David Cameron said well you know he's a good friend |
| 2:42.2 | of mine George but doesn't know everything |
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