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Political Currency

Meet JD Vance, Trump’s VP and George Osborne’s friend

Political Currency

Persephonica

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

4.11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

It was a bonkers week for American politics, on both sides. Team Trump went from an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania to a fiery convention in Wisconsin. Biden’s camp had NATO, fresh calls for him to drop out of the race and a Covid diagnosis to round it off, all in a matter of days.


And amongst it all, a fresh political operative came into the limelight: Donald Trump’s newly-named running mate JD Vance. Turns out, he’s an old friend of George’s and a long-time fan of the former Cameron-Osborne government. George Osborne reveals all about the man who could be VP and suggests he could be taking notes from Keir Starmer’s playbook. Ed Balls isn’t so sure. In fact, he’s pretty horrified by the suggestion altogether… 


Back home, and British politics is positively placid by comparison. The former PM Rishi Sunak is learning the art of being a good loser, and using a bit of humour to get through it all. Labour is making big moves with its foreign policy. What does it tell us about their future plans?


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Producer: Rosie Stopher

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Executive Producers: Dino Sofos and Ellie Clifford


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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.

1:05.6

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 Edbles and George Osborne. So we're back, Parliament underway, the King's Speech done, all these new MPs and

1:42.2

ministers setting off on their new journey. I was at

1:45.8

a King's College event on Tuesday evening and the Manchester MP newly appointed

1:51.7

Minister Andrew Weston who had met for the first time, said to me,

1:55.0

I've just come off the train and I spent the journey listening to political currency as I do every week.

2:01.0

So you know, the next generation of ministers rising up with political currency

2:05.2

and then Gary Linnaker. Yes well we of course you know Gary Linnaker, fantastic football commentator, great captain of England,

2:14.2

but scored a few goals.

2:15.7

scored a few goals.

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