‘Stop doing stupid things’: Martin Wolf on the UK
Political Fix
Financial Times
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🗓️ 20 December 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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As the year draws to a close, Lucy Fisher is joined by Political Fix regulars George Parker and Stephen Bush to consider where British politics goes next. What challenges await Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer in January, and what ammunition are the Tories and Labour stockpiling to fire at each other in the election campaign? Plus, the FT’s chief economics commentator Martin Wolf sits down for an end of year chat with Lucy to dissect the big economic problems facing the government - and what fixes are available.
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| 0:42.0 | you can keep talking like that. You are basically said we have |
| 0:44.6 | nothing useful to say about the core problems facing the country. |
| 0:48.6 | Welcome to political fix. your essential insider guide to Westminster from the Financial Times with me Lucy Fisher. |
| 0:59.0 | You heard there the F.T. Chief Economics commentator Martin Wolf on the state of UK politics. |
| 1:05.5 | Also coming up, Martin gives his view on Britain's economic prospects, but first I'm joined in the |
| 1:10.8 | studio by my F.T. Colle George. |
| 1:13.2 | Hello George. |
| 1:14.1 | Hi Lucy. |
| 1:15.1 | And also on the pod today is the F.T. Stephen Bush. |
| 1:17.5 | Hello Stephen. |
| 1:18.4 | Hi Lucy. |
| 1:19.3 | It's been a rather sluggish end to the parliamentary year, hasn't it? We've had the sheer brass neck of |
| 1:29.0 | Michelle Moan, the Tory pair who's admitted to lying repeatedly to the press that's kept some of us |
| 1:35.6 | bystanders a gog. George we were among reporters who descended on Downing Street |
| 1:40.4 | for drinks with the Chancellor and Prime Minister this week and Ritchie soon act true to form |
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