The secret to launching a political career
Political Currency
Persephonica
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🗓️ 15 August 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
It’s results day and while students across the country celebrate their A-levels, BTEC and T-levels, university funding has come back into the limelight. And what’s better than one former education minister? Two! Gillian Keegan is sitting in for George this week, and she and Ed Balls consider the best course of action to make the education sector pay for itself.
Plus, Gillian makes her case for more business people in Parliament. Would they really drive more growth than career politicians with PPE degrees?
And in the next instalment of our summer conversations, Ed and George give the 2024 intake of MPs their top tips for standing out from the crowd - but does Gillian agree?
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| 0:00.0 | AI might be the most important innovation ever, with literally billions being invested. |
| 0:05.5 | The problem is that AI needs the right data and a lot of speed and processing power. |
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| 0:46.2 | flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. |
| 0:52.0 | While today we're mostly in oil and gas. |
| 0:54.7 | We increased the proportion of our global annual investment |
| 0:57.4 | that went into our lower carbon and other transition businesses |
| 1:00.7 | from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in 2023. |
| 1:06.0 | BP.com slash and not all. |
| 1:09.0 | This episode is brought to you by G.S.K. |
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| 1:30.8 | G.S.K. say that prevention to them means pioneering new medicines to reduce HIV transmission |
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