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Summer EMQs: Who really runs the country?
Season 1 Episode 92
Are the civil service the real brains behind the government? What role does a Chief of Staff play? And what on earth do government ministers do all d…
1 year, 10 months ago
Are the Democrats celebrating too soon?
Season 1 Episode 91
The Democratic National Convention is underway in Chicago with jubilant scenes. Fortunately for us - while Ed Balls is on holiday - George Osborne ha…
1 year, 10 months ago
Summer EMQs: Was Austerity a Mistake?
Season 1 Episode 90
Should Labour have defended themselves better against the Tory claim that they’d caused the 2010 UK financial position? Ed Balls and George Osborne g…
1 year, 10 months ago
The secret to launching a political career
Season 1 Episode 89
It’s results day and while students across the country celebrate their A-levels, BTEC and T-levels, university funding has come back into the limelig…
1 year, 10 months ago
Summer EMQs: The Political Currency constituency
Season 1 Episode 88
Ed Balls and George Osborne answer questions from the EMQs archive - this week, an insider’s guide to a life political. Is a u-turn ever the right th…
1 year, 10 months ago
Should the Tories stop chasing Reform voters?
Season 1 Episode 87
Britain braced itself for widespread rioting and anti-immigration demonstrations, with shops boarding up their storefronts and commuters told to take…
1 year, 10 months ago
EMQs: Summer Recess Buddies
Season 1 Episode 86
Ed and George are going on a summer holiday… and Ed’s GMB co-host Ranvir Singh wonders, if they had to take a trip with a member of the opposition, w…
1 year, 10 months ago
Rachel Reeves: The next austerity chancellor?
Season 1 Episode 85
In the wake of the tragic events this week in Southport, and the eruption of riots that followed, Ed Balls and George Osborne consider how MPs should…
1 year, 10 months ago
EMQs: Celebs go politicking
Season 1 Episode 84
Could we see celebrities swapping the silver screen, football pitch or concert stage for the hallowed halls of Westminster? Ed Balls and George Osbor…
1 year, 11 months ago
Starmer, Strictly and Summer of Brat
Season 1 Episode 83
The world is braced for a brat summer as Kamala Harris steps in for Joe Biden as the Democratic presidential candidate - George Osborne and Ed Balls …
1 year, 11 months ago