Will Rachel Reeves be forced to U-turn on winter fuel payments?

Political Currency

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

4 • 855 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Ed and George are reunited to mull over whether Rachel Reeves should make a U-turn on the winter fuel payment furore. Is there an "escape route" she can take?

And they examine the government’s decision to suspend some arms shipments to Israel. Was it really “a legal decision, not a policy decision”, as the PM has claimed?

Finally, we ask whether central bankers deserve the credit for falling inflation – or if they simply got lucky. And Ed and George issue a mea culpa for some slightly inaccurate predictions about the Tory leadership contest, as Priti Patel tumbles out of the race at the first hurdle.

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0:00.0	BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like developing offshore wind,
0:06.1	and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. Well today we're mostly in oil and gas.
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.
0:28.0	B.com slash and not all. This episode is brought to you by G.S.K.
0:35.0	We're lucky to live in a time when many of us can access medicine when we become ill,
0:38.5	but even better than recovering from being unwell is not getting ill in the first place.
0:43.2	Yes, G.S.K believes that prevention is the best medicine and that's why they've built one of the
0:48.2	broadest vaccine portfolios in the world.
0:50.6	G.S.K. say that prevention to them means pioneering new medicines to reduce HIV transmission
0:56.2	or stopping chronic conditions from progressing to more serious complications.
1:00.4	That's because preventing disease is the best possible outcome for all of us and that's why G.S.K.
1:05.6	Unites science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.
1:09.6	Visit gsk.com to learn more. This is political currency with Edballs and George Osborne. It's September. It's September.
1:40.0	Welcome back to political currency, live and in person.
1:44.3	George and I both are back from our August troops.
1:46.8	We hope you enjoyed our very special episodes throughout August.
1:50.2	And we're going to say, George, we're remote today is that cabin you in I am on the set
1:55.8	essentially of a scandine noir thriller not literally I'm in a cabin on an island off the coast of Norway where I'm working remotely this week,
2:06.1	and I keep expecting a kind of knock at the door and some sort of detective with a big woolly jumper
2:12.4	to come and tell me there's been a murder on the island.
2:14.7	Well we were on our interrail trip as you pointed out more than once.
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