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EMQs: Budget traditions, Briefings and Brits for Trump
Season 1 Episode 112
Has the reaction to the Winter Fuel Payment cut scared Labour from making more big budget moves on welfare? And what ever happened to the tradition o…
1 year, 8 months ago
Who is George Osborne backing for Tory leader?
Season 1 Episode 111
Drumroll, please. After keeping his cards pretty close to his chest throughout the Tory leadership campaign, George Osborne is ready to name who he t…
1 year, 8 months ago
EMQs: Can you have friends in politics?
Season 1 Episode 110
Frenemies George Osborne and Ed Balls talk about great political friendships and rivalries. What was the unspoken understanding between former Prime …
1 year, 8 months ago
How to plug a £40bn black hole
Season 1 Episode 109
How can Rachel Reeves solve her £40 billion budget gap without breaking Labour’s manifesto promise? Ed Balls and George Osborne take a deep dive into…
1 year, 8 months ago
EMQs: Can HS2 be revived from the dead?
Season 1 Episode 108
The killing of HS2 was one of the defining features of the former government’s final days but there’s now talk the high speed rail line to Manchester…
1 year, 8 months ago
Cleverly: What went wrong?!
Season 1 Episode 107
James Cleverly has made a stunning exit from the Tory leadership race, leaving Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick as the final two to duke it out. Geor…
1 year, 8 months ago
EMQs: Political regrets? We have a few
Season 1 Episode 106
Ed Balls and George Osborne consider their biggest political mistakes and their proudest moments in office with a question from former Deputy Prime M…
1 year, 8 months ago
How Labour made a political scandal worse
Season 1 Episode 105
Keir Starmer has caved and returned thousands of pounds in freebies given to him by a Labour donor, in an attempt to close a rather embarrassing chap…
1 year, 8 months ago
HOT TAKE: James Cleverly: Next Tory leader?
Season 1 Episode 104
Has the Tory leadership contest just been decided? Our man on the ground George Osborne is reporting directly back to Ed Balls from today’s Conservat…
1 year, 8 months ago
EMQs: What’s your unpopular opinion?
Season 1 Episode 103
Ed Balls and George Osborne open up this week on their most ardent, contrarian views. Is reincarnation real? Political reincarnation, perhaps. George…
1 year, 9 months ago