Political Currency
Ed Balls and George Osborne take us behind closed doors into the rooms where decisions are made. Having battled it out across the despatch box, the former Chancellor and shadow chancellor now meet in the studio to discuss the decisions that affect the nation’s pockets. Our frenemies have the knowledge and experience to explain how good politics follows the economics - and expose how the powerful become powerless when faced with market forces and political currents they can’t control. Join us eve...
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Episodes (570)
EMQs Easter special: Does anyone want to pay more taxes?
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EMQs: How should PMs behave after they leave No 10?
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Trump Vs the Bond Market: Inside the President’s tariffs U-turn
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EMQs: Is toxic masculinity a government problem?
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Trump’s tariffs: Is Starmer right to ‘keep calm and carry on’?
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EMQs: Who’s to blame for the state of the economy?
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Could Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ gamble pay off?
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EMQs: Should frozen Russian assets fund Ukraine?
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Is Rachel Reeves risking her reset moment?
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EMQs: Political Golf Buddies
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Will welfare cuts be Labour’s undoing?
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EMQs: A post politics survival guide
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Will Rachel Reeves be forced into an emergency budget?
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EMQs: The art of parliamentary heckling
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Europe’s security wake-up call
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EMQs: How to survive a cabinet reshuffle
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Could Keir Starmer send British Troops to Ukraine?
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EMQs: Are personal insults fair in politics?
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Can Kemi Badenoch get free of Nigel Farage?
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EMQs: Can we get young people back to work?
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Will the Tories fall for Keir Starmers EU trap?
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EMQs: Should we want Donald Trump to succeed?
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Can extremism amongst young men be stopped?
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EMQs: Should David Beckham be knighted?
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Trump's tech supremacy era begins?
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EMQs: Could Ed Davey’s EU plan actually work?
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Should Starmer replace Reeves?
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EMQs: Time to take Trump seriously?
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Reeves’ bond market headache
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Inside No 10: David Cameron - The First Six Months (Part 3: The World Stage)
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Inside No 10: David Cameron - The First Six Months (Part 2: The Austerity Budget...
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Inside No 10: David Cameron - The First Six Months (Part 1: Prime Minister at la...
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EMQs: 2025, The Comeback Year?
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EMQs: Christmas crises and cracker etiquette
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A lump of coal for Waspi women?
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EMQs: Political Mishearings
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Starmer’s blame game
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EMQs: Can one person flip an election?
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Why Starmer shouldn’t underestimate Elon Musk
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Inside The Room: The Scottish Independence Referendum (Part 3: The result)
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Inside The Room: The Scottish Independence Referendum (Part 2: The unanswerable...
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Trump the peacemaker?
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Inside The Room: The Scottish Independence Referendum (Part 1: The vote is grant...
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John Prescott: The punchy political powerhouse we knew
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EMQs: Will the government support British farmers?
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Who should be the UK’s ambassador to Trumpworld?
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EMQs: Is there a silver lining in Trump?
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Trump 2.0: The economic fallout
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HOT TAKE: Donald Trump is President
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EMQs: Can you revamp a political image?
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