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🗓️ 28 November 2024
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Joe Biden's White House days are numbered, and he appears to be scrambling to secure his legacy. With a ceasefire just brokered between Israel and Lebanon, George Osborne and Ed Balls ask: What kind of influence is the returning President Trump already having on foreign policy? How is the transition really working? And what does this mean for the conflict in Ukraine? Is the Trump effect forcing world leaders to harden up and have a real, public conversation about a peace deal?
Back home, Rachel Reeves is talking a big game – insisting Labour won’t be bringing in any more tax increases or borrowing plans. Is she making promises that will be hard to keep? Ed and George mull whether Reeves is setting herself up for trouble down the road.
And with a snap election in Germany just months away, Ed and George take a closer look at the country’s economy – which has gone from ‘miraculous’ to ‘kaput’ in just a few years – and ask who’s to blame.
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