Tax, Lies and Leaders on Tour
Political Currency
Persephonica
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
The first election TV debate might be over, but the ripples of Rishi Sunak’s £2000 tax claim are still being felt around Westminster and beyond. Ed Balls and George Osborne wonder whether this could become the defining issue of this election - and question how on earth Keir Starmer was so underprepared for it.
As the party leaders continue on their tours of constituency hotspots, what’s the real story behind their campaigns? Handily, George knows a thing or two, having run an election campaign himself, and he draws back the curtain on what’s really going on.
And if there’s one thing Ed and George love, it’s a budget - so when can we expect the first post-election fiscal event?
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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 Edballs and George Osborne. |
| 1:49.0 | So welcome back and we are recording on the 6th of June 2024, 80 years on from the D-Day landings. I've just dashed over from Good Morning Britain where we've been in Normandy for the morning and it's... |
| 1:54.4 | Well you haven't been in Normandy. No well I was in the studio so I didn't I didn't dash back from Normandy |
| 1:59.6 | I came from the studio. Kate Garaway was in Normandy talking to these veterans and on the one |
| 2:04.1 | hand you've realized this is an obvious thing that because the veterans of that |
| 2:09.9 | invasion incredibly brave survivors and out into their late 90s. This is the last, you know, big |
| 2:16.4 | celebration by the time you get to 90 years, it will be all of us and their families remembering, but history gets written in the moment when the last survivors are still with us and that's what's happening now the history of that time being set down, but also we're in a general election campaign and the reason we have |
| 2:34.9 | general elections and can vote is because those guys secured our democracy against a fascist threat. |
| 2:41.8 | And I was also reflecting though how incredibly difficult as well as the bravery of the individuals |
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