Starmer's Back-To-School Plans
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
MPs are back in Westminster after the summer recess, and the government has big plans for the new term - but where will it be plain sailing, and where could it all go horribly wrong? Ed Vaizey guides us through the promises and the pitfalls.
Plus: Columnists Rachel Sylvester and Libby Purves discuss the scrapping of Ofsted's one-word judgements, the latest Tory leadership bid launches, and whether politicians can - or should - dance in public.
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| 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. |
| 0:30.6 | The world is getting more dangerous, and understanding how helps. |
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| 1:09.6 | podcast with me Ed Vezi. Today Parliament finally returns from recess and |
| 1:14.8 | Westminster is bracing for a frantic two weeks before breaking up again for party |
| 1:19.6 | conferences. For our big thing today we're going to look at what's in Kiea Starmer's intray, what does the government want to achieve, |
| 1:26.0 | and what are the potential pitfalls. |
| 1:28.0 | But first though, this. The colonist's with Libby Rachel, and Rachel Sylvester. |
| 1:37.0 | The colonist, with Libby Rachel, Libby Burvis and Rachel Sylvester. Rachel but you are Liberace of course hello Rachel Sylvester hello Libby Purvis I don't mind being |
| 1:56.2 | identified with Liberace I'm that flamboyant believe me well we're going to be the first ever |
| 2:01.9 | people I suspect later on in this discussion, to get the words |
| 2:05.3 | Angela Rayna and Liberace in the same sentence. But that's just a temptation for our listeners |
| 2:10.9 | to keep them tuned in. But let's start with something much more important |
| 2:14.4 | which of course is offstead offstead is going to end the watchdog single word |
| 2:19.0 | judgments of schools this was the education secretary Bridget Phillips and on what will replace them. |
| 2:24.0 | So what we're going to put in their place is a better system, a stronger system that gives parents more information in the form of report card about what's working within a school, what's really going well, |
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