Things Can Only Get Worse: Sunak’s Snap Election
Political Currency
Persephonica
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🗓️ 23 May 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
A snap election! Not quite George Osborne’s prediction of 14th November, Ed Balls is struggling to understand the logic that led Rishi Sunak to surprise, well, literally everybody with 4th July as the date of the next general election. Are good inflation numbers really enough to see the Conservatives to a better result than the formerly predicted disaster? George reveals Number 10’s thinking.
As the battle is drawn, Ed and George discuss the seats to watch and the issues on the table - and of course, the ones that aren’t. And, they draw back the curtain on how Westminster will be preparing in the wake of the prime minister’s bombshell.
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| 0:00.0 | BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like developing offshore wind, |
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| 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. |
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| 1:09.6 | Visit gsk.com to learn more. This is political currency with Edballs and George Osborne. |
| 1:45.5 | So welcome to political currency. We're remote this week. I'm in the UK. George has been on an aeroplane to Tokyo I think. Yeah I'm in Kyoto here. What's been happening in my absence? |
| 1:50.4 | I'm really sorry to tell you but there's been some developments. |
| 1:53.3 | No, what's happened? |
| 1:55.1 | Your prediction of a November election turns out, it's happening quicker than we thought. |
| 2:00.4 | I was going to start this podcast 24 hours ago by saying thinking about this I can't |
| 2:06.0 | see how they could possibly have a conservative conference at the end of September. |
| 2:10.4 | It would be so divisive. Surely they're going to have to bring it forward the general |
| 2:14.3 | election date from November to October. But I'm afraid George, 4th of July, we're on. The election campaign |
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