Summer EMQs: The Political Currency constituency
Political Currency
Persephonica
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🗓️ 12 August 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Ed Balls and George Osborne answer questions from the EMQs archive - this week, an insider’s guide to a life political. Is a u-turn ever the right thing to do? How does the Prime Minister know whose question to answer at a press conference? And is it fair to say that all politicians are just in it for themselves?
Plus, Ed makes his predictions for the next shock-exit politician to follow in his and Michael Portillo’s steps as a media personality, and we ponder what our Political Currency constituency looks like.
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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 23% in 2023. |
| 0:27.2 | BP.com slash and not all. |
| 0:31.6 | The future is unpredictable at times that the Open University are the experts in distance learning, |
| 0:38.0 | allowing you to fit study around your life. |
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| 0:56.0 | The Open University, the future is open. This episode is brought to you by G.S.K. |
| 1:05.0 | We're lucky to live in a time when many of us can access medicine when we become ill, |
| 1:08.5 | but even better than recovering from being unwell is not getting ill in the first place. |
| 1:13.2 | Yes, G.S.K believes that prevention is the best medicine and that's why they've built one of the |
| 1:18.3 | broadest vaccine portfolios in the world. |
| 1:20.8 | G.S.K. say that prevention to them means pioneering new medicines to reduce HIV transmission |
| 1:26.3 | or stopping chronic conditions from progressing to more serious complications. |
| 1:30.5 | That's because preventing disease is the best possible outcome for all of us and that's why G.S.K. |
| 1:35.8 | Unites science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. |
| 1:39.8 | Visit gsk.com to learn more. |
| 1:42.2 | The Chancellor of the Exchequer. Visit G.S.K.com to learn more. |
| 1:42.8 | The Chancellor of the Exchequer. |
| 1:44.8 | Getting a lesson from the Shadow Chancellor |
| 1:46.7 | and how to balance the books, |
| 1:47.7 | it's like getting a lesson from Dracula |
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