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)
What did Rachel Reeves’ Budget miss?
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Budget Hot Take: Rachel Reeves’ Tax Raid
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EMQs: Budget traditions, Briefings and Brits for Trump
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Who is George Osborne backing for Tory leader?
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EMQs: Can you have friends in politics?
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How to plug a £40bn black hole
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EMQs: Can HS2 be revived from the dead?
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Cleverly: What went wrong?!
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EMQs: Political regrets? We have a few
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How Labour made a political scandal worse
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HOT TAKE: James Cleverly: Next Tory leader?
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EMQs: What’s your unpopular opinion?
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Which Tory will get the Boris blessing?
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CONFERENCE HOT TAKE: Protestors disrupt Rachel Reeves’ speech
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EMQs: How to give a GREAT conference speech
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Starmer’s big Sue Gray problem
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EMQs: Media spin, middle classes and memories of conferences past
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Can Starmer really fix the NHS?
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EMQs: Should you pay if you miss an NHS appointment?
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Will Rachel Reeves be forced to U-turn on winter fuel payments?
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Summer EMQs: Where are all the great parliamentary orators?
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Osbornomics, Oasis, and Opposition
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Summer EMQs: Who really runs the country?
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Are the Democrats celebrating too soon?
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Summer EMQs: Was Austerity a Mistake?
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The secret to launching a political career
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Summer EMQs: The Political Currency constituency
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Should the Tories stop chasing Reform voters?
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EMQs: Summer Recess Buddies
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Rachel Reeves: The next austerity chancellor?
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EMQs: Celebs go politicking
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Starmer, Strictly and Summer of Brat
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EMQs: Are you ready for ID cards?
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Meet JD Vance, Trump’s VP and George Osborne’s friend
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EMQs: Political Football
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Inside the race to lead the Tory party
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Will Starmer’s 'GOAT' cabinet succeed?
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Inside Starmer’s No. 10
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What REALLY happens on polling day?
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Can Starmer work with Trump and Le Pen?
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EMQs: Is Rishi California Dreamin’?
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Is Labour's honeymoon already over?
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ELECTION EXTRA: Farage’s Russian gambit
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EMQs: Political porkies and party people
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Will Starmer be a one-term wonder?
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ELECTION EXTRA: Should Sunak fight dirty?
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EMQs: How an ex-PM leaves No. 10
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Labour’s Straitjacket Manifesto
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ELECTION EXTRA: Manifestos, Macron and Money Problems
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EMQs: Punches, Paxman, and Parachuted Candidates
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