The existential threats facing Keir Starmer
Political Currency
Persephonica
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🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is political currency with Ed Balls and George Osborne. |
| 0:30.2 | George Osborne. We're actually together in the same room. |
| 0:33.1 | It's not remote. |
| 0:34.3 | I wanted to be here for your birthday. |
| 0:36.5 | It's your birthday week. You're a day late. Well, okay, maybe, but I've still got a card for you, which I'm going to hand over. Thank you. Oh my gosh. I am now firmly in my 60th year. 60. You're not 60. You're 59. I know, but it's my 60th year. I'm sorry. But that's the kind of nerdy thing people say at school. Happy birthday from Team. I'm not 59. I know, but it's my 60th year. I'm slightly birthday. But that's the kind of nerdy thing people say at school. |
| 0:55.1 | Happy birthday from the team. |
| 0:56.9 | I'm not 59. I'm in my 60th year. I know. Actually, but Susanna Reid told me yesterday on GMB. She said, Breaking News, Ed Ball's birthday. She said, you've got to celebrate it. Your health, your happiness, doing great things. |
| 1:10.2 | I know, she's totally right. |
| 1:11.8 | And? |
| 1:12.1 | Thank you, Susanna. |
| 1:12.7 | Thanks for the invite, then. |
| 1:14.0 | No. |
| 1:14.7 | It was... celebrate it. Your health, your happiness, doing great things. I know, she's totally right. |
| 1:11.8 | And? Thank you, Susanna. Thanks for the invite, then. No, it was live on television. I didn't have a |
| 1:17.0 | party. I actually had all our kids came round, my brother and a vet, who flew in from Ukraine, |
| 1:22.7 | and we watched Norwich Beach Sheffield Wednesday on the TV. I mean, you know, what a birthday evening. |
| 1:27.1 | What a shame I missed it. Anyway, you know, what a birthday evening. What a shame I missed it. |
| 1:29.4 | Anyway, you've been celebrating your birthday week by mansplaining to the leader of the |
| 1:33.5 | opposition. Yes. For people don't know, shall I do? So, Cammy Bain-K-nock was being |
| 1:40.6 | interviewed on Good Morning Britain by you and Susanna. And then Martin Lewis, who's the kind of money expert, comes and sort of stands over her. And then you're both talking to her. And she says, stop talking over me. And anyway, it went not in sort of quite in Taylor Swift scale, but it nevertheless went a bit viral. |
| 1:57.1 | Look, she did actually brilliantly on this. Just to tell you what was going on, |
| 2:02.0 | we are interviewing Kemi Bidnock on the sofa, Susanna and me. Sizana's talked about Andrew. |
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