Summer EMQs: Who really runs the country?
Political Currency
Persephonica
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Are the civil service the real brains behind the government? What role does a Chief of Staff play? And what on earth do government ministers do all day?
Ed Balls and George Osborne are tackling your questions on the ins-and-outs of the daily grind of running the country - from official residences to avoiding gimmicks.
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| 0:00.0 | At G.S.K, we believe that prevention is the best medicine. Prevention is pioneering new medicines to reduce |
| 0:07.3 | HIV transmission, applying decades of experience and asthma control to limit long-term lung damage or stopping chronic |
| 0:14.3 | conditions from progressing to most serious complications because preventing disease |
| 0:18.3 | is the best possible outcome for all of us and is why G.S.K. unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of |
| 0:25.7 | disease together. Visit gsk.com to learn more. |
| 0:30.3 | B.P. is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like developing offshore wind, |
| 0:36.2 | and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. |
| 0:39.5 | It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. |
| 0:43.8 | Well today we're mostly in oil and gas. |
| 0:46.3 | We increased the proportion of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon |
| 0:50.4 | and other transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in |
| 0:56.1 | 2023. VP.com slash and not all. 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. |
| 1:34.6 | And that's why G.S.K. unites science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. |
| 1:39.7 | Visit gsk.com to learn more. |
| 1:42.2 | The Chancellor of the Exchequer. Visit G.S.K.com to learn more. |
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