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Political Currency

Suella, conference mayhem and a mystery turd...

Political Currency

Persephonica

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

4.11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Suella Braverman has caused a row this week after her controversial comments on Britain’s immigration policy. Ed and George argue over whether she took the right approach. 


The Conservative party prepares to head off to its conference. Why is this a critical moment for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak?


Is Manchester mayor Andy Burnham’s support for HS3 a gift to Sunak, and a disaster for HS2?


And why did George and David Cameron have to scoop a turd out of Rupert Murdoch’s pool?


Email: questions@politicalcurrency.co.uk

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Producer: Paige Reynolds

Production Manager: Flick Heath

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 welcome. So, third episode, we've made it this far.

1:33.0

Back from your international travels.

1:45.1

Yeah really nice to be here in London again. I've had quite a stressful week I've got to say

1:49.2

yesterday our youngest daughter went to university you and a vet packed the car with her,

1:54.0

took her there, dropped her off and something about the final kid leaving the nest.

1:58.9

It's a big day actually, quite hard.

2:01.5

And I called you, you had been left in the car whilst

2:04.0

the vet and your daughter were in Hallford's buying a bike buying a bike first day of

2:07.7

university a bit of a cliche with us she'll actually ride it I've no idea but she's got a

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