
EMQs: What's your most embarrassing moment as a politician?
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What’s the most embarrassing moment you’ve ever had caught on camera? Good Morning Britain’s Susanna Reid asks George and Ed to walk down an excruciating memory lane. And she puts a question from ChatGPT to them, in light of George’s new gig. But which question is better?
George reveals William Hague’s incredible method for making sure meetings run on time and Ed helps a Gold listener finally understand the joke at the front of the show? Why on earth would George think he was on the Titanic?
A listener shares their experience as a Jewish person in the UK, after the attack on Bondi Beach.
And, Nick Thomas-Symonds, cabinet member and famed biographer of Harold Wilson compliments George on his impression of the former Prime Minister - though makes a slight correction. He wants to know when Ed and George think the leaders they served were most resilient.
Finally - seeing as it’s nearly Christmas - Ed and George muse on where Santa does his Christmas shopping…
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