Tories at war and a Labour rebellion

Political Currency

Persephonica

Politics, News, Economy, Westminster, Business, George Osborne, Ed Balls, Money

4.1 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

It’s been a wild week in Westminster and it’s starting to look like the Tories are losing their grip. Ed and George chew over the Supreme Court’s judgment on Rwanda and what it means for Sunak. Could his new Foreign Secretary slam the brakes on some Tories’ hopes to leave the ECHR?

Meanwhile, Keir Starmer faced a huge rebellion of his MPs over the SNP’s ceasefire amendment. Ed explains why this isn’t as big a threat to the Labour leader as it first appears...

And though this psycho-drama has quickly buried any good news on inflation, over at No.11 Jeremy Hunt has his head down in Autumn Statement preparations. George reflects on how something as simple as a pasty can cause everything to fall apart.

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Executive Producers: Dino Sofos and Ellie Clifford

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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 Edbles and George Osborne. Well, Ed, where are you today? I am in Norwich. If I just peer out of this window I can see Norwich Cathedral Spire.
1:47.0	We're going to be recording a BBC Radio 3 house concert this afternoon and this evening actually the live performance in which
1:54.4	I will be conducting.
1:57.1	You look to me like you are in your office, I can see your red box.
1:59.8	I mean, you know David Cameron, back in the government, government foreign secretary he's getting his own
2:05.4	red boxes he's just flown to Ukraine you must be thinking a little bit jealous of
2:09.7	course a little bit jealous but in a good way because he's my very very good friend it's not at all like seeing people you don't rate get the jobs you would have liked to have done now I'm very pleased for him but but yeah, you know, you must feel the same way.
2:25.2	We gave our lives to politics and then these are intrinsically interesting jobs.
2:31.4	And so there's a little bit of me that goes
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