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)
Tax, Lies and Leaders on Tour
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Election Hot Take: Can Sunak save his campaign?
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EMQs: Paddleboards, power stances and private schools
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Is Rishi Sunak's election gamble paying off?
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EMQs: Election Questions Special
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Things Can Only Get Worse: Sunak’s Snap Election
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EMQs: Truss, treasury officials and techxit?
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Protests, Presidents and Politics like it's 97!
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EMQs: Political Book Club
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Defections, coalitions and China-UK relations
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Will local elections bring down Sunak?
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EMQs: Ed Balls Day
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Planes, Trains and Nationalism
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EMQs: Blunders, Bag Carriers and Biden’s Stammer
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Liz Truss for PM?
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EMQs: The Brexit Plots special
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Sexts, Tax and Mar-a-Lago
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Inside The Room: The Brexit Plots (Part 3)
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Inside The Room: The Brexit Plots (Part 2)
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Inside The Room: The Brexit Plots (Part 1)
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Ballots, the BBC and Buying British
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EMQs: Tactical voting, Tradition, and Taylor Swift
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Can Sunak save himself?
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EMQs: Should cannabis be legalised?
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Dodgy donors, Diane Abbott and digital currency
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EMQs: Why does Trump keep winning?
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A May election?
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HOT TAKE: Is this an election winning budget?
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EMQs: Secrets of the Budget speech and the EdStone mystery
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Islamophobia, Truss conspiracies and budget friction
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EMQS: Boris' book, private planes and positive discrimination
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Chaos in the Commons
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EMQs: Private school fees and public sackings
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'Rishession' and Starmer’s anti-semitism problem
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EMQs: Our next female PM & tea with Dr Dre
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What do Sunak and Starmer actually stand for?
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EMQs: Social media screw-ups and has Matt Hancock been misunderstood?
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Brexit Means Bankers' Bonuses!
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EMQs: Political nicknames, a radical NHS & snorting in Parliament
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How (not) to take down a prime minister
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EMQs: Preparing for PMQs, crisis management & setting the royal budget
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Rishi Sunak's next nightmare
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EMQs: Special Advisers, tuition fees and is the Barnett formula fair?
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George reveals the election date!
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Inside The Room: The Coalition Talks (Part 2)
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Inside The Room: The Coalition Talks (Part 1)
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Christmas Questions Special: Jeremy Hunt, Rachel Reeves & Stephen Fry
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Do They Know It's Election Time?
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Keir Starmer’s popularity problem
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Tory shambles: Rwanda resignation and Boris at the Covid inquiry
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