You, May, be excused: Boris Johnson ascends
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4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2019
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Britain has a new prime minister—who will inherit all the same problems his predecessor had. Good luck guiding a divided nation through Brexit with a paper-thin majority in parliament. Europe’s steel industry is getting hammered by tariffs and gluts, but one tucked-away mill in Austria has steeled itself for tumult. And, what single characteristic do Americans least want in their roommates?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 0:09.8 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:17.8 | An Austrian mill first built to protect Nazi steelmaking from Allied bombardment |
| 0:23.1 | was located in just about the worst possible place for producing steel. |
| 0:28.2 | Yet seven decades on, it's flourishing, even as the European steel industry takes a beating. |
| 0:34.0 | We find out why. |
| 0:36.5 | And a look at ads in America reveals the single most undesirable thing in a roommate, and it's not what you'd think. |
| 0:44.4 | Unwanted house guests, loud music, unwanted house music. |
| 0:48.2 | These all pale in comparison with the one thing everyone can disagree on. |
| 0:52.5 | Politics. |
| 0:56.0 | But first... |
| 1:01.0 | Britain's Conservative Party has chosen a new leader, |
| 1:04.0 | and the country will soon have a new Prime Minister, |
| 1:07.0 | and it's no surprise. |
| 1:09.0 | And the total number of votes given to each candidate was as follows. |
| 1:15.3 | Jeremy Hunt, 46,656, Boris Johnson, 92,153. |
| 1:27.2 | And therefore, I give notice that Boris Johnson is elected as the leader of the Conservative |
| 1:33.2 | and Unionist Party. |
| 1:35.9 | In a vote by almost 160,000 Conservative Party members, Boris Johnson won out over Jeremy Hunt |
| 1:42.9 | by a decisive margin. |
| 1:44.5 | We are going to energize the country. We're going to get Brexit done on October 31st. |
| 1:48.8 | We're going to take advantage of all the opportunities that it will bring in a new spirit of can-do. |
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