'Rishession' and Starmer’s anti-semitism problem
Political Currency
Persephonica
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
The United Kingdom has fallen into recession… technically. It couldn’t be worse timing for the Sunak government, which will now have this gloomy economic news - already dubbed ‘Rishession’ - hanging over its head for the next three months. What would Ed and George do next?
Meanwhile, Labour has been battling a crisis of its own, as it’s embroiled in another row over anti-semitism in the party. Has Keir Starmer done enough to address concerns over Rochdale candidate Azhar Ali? Ed and George agree it’s an embarrassing mess for Starmer and the worst week of his leadership so far.
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| 0:37.2 | Visit gsk.com to learn more. This This is political currency with Ed Bulls and George Osbourne. Welcome and welcome to the other half of Britain's seventh most powerful couple in the whole country, Ed Bulls. |
| 1:15.6 | Because if you've not been following the Politico's Power List in Valentine's Day |
| 1:21.6 | Week, you would have missed the fact that Ed you are with your wife |
| 1:25.3 | Yvette up there in the list of the most powerful romantic couples in Britain. |
| 1:30.1 | Congratulations. And thank you look there was a time when people said, you know, Ed Balls and his wife, Yvette Cooper, and now they say |
| 1:36.5 | Evette Cooper and a husband, Ed Balls. |
| 1:39.2 | I'm definitely now the Dennis Thatcher of this relationship, I'm definitely the number two. the on past glories because you know politics is behind me. Well I think there are three |
| 1:54.7 | in this marriage because the reason you're back in the list but I used to be |
| 1:59.2 | number one back in the day is because you're doing a podcast with me. |
| 2:03.0 | Is that what it says? |
| 2:04.0 | According to this. |
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