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Our fourth Harvard-Kings paper on regional growth - a decidedly mixed stocktake of progress over the last two years, plus what the new Prime Minister needs to do to revive the growth agenda - is out today. Dan has done a great thread with a link to the paper at the top:
Two years ago Labour promised a “devolution revolution” to drive growth. Today, with @edballs, Nyasha Weinberg, @annastansbury and @ElsdenEsme, we publish our verdict: a government at risk of squandering the best opportunity in a generation. A🧵 hks.harvard.edu/centers/mrcb…
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Ed Balls retweeted
“I’m not saying there is a direct parallel between AI and nuclear weapons.”
As the demand for AI regulation grows, George Osborne explains how Trump’s meeting with President Xi helps lay the groundwork for consensus.
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Ed Balls retweeted
“Do people really know who the Liberal Democrats are?”
Ed and George speculate whether Ed Davey’s lowkey strategy is causing the party problems, or keeping their options open for a future coalition.
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Ed Balls retweeted
“It’s still a nerve-racking moment”
George Osborne argues Andy Burnham’s first encounter with Donald Trump went as well as it possibly could have.
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Ed Balls retweeted
The headline everyone’s talking about…
Great to see my front page interview with Piers Morgan being discussed on @GMB, @GBNEWS, @SkyNews and @BBCBreakfast.
I don’t often agree with @edballs, but in this instance he’s spot on… 😉
@piersmorgan @TheSun #EarlSpencer #PrincessDiana #theroyalfamily
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Ed Balls retweeted
“The message they are hearing is it's a traditional left wing tax and spend government.”
George Osborne relays the pessimism internationally about Burnham’s government, and the inability to face difficult choices ahead of the budget.
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Ed Balls retweeted
🎙️ NEW episode of EMQs…
🇺🇳 @UNReliefChief asks how we can bring leaders together to save people…
🏗️ Does delaying North Sea drilling hurt Burnham?
♫ Can music change politics?
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Ed Balls retweeted
Is Andy Burnham heading for budget disaster? | Political Currency piped.video/BKE2-1f2zBQ?si=iUhD… via @YouTube
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Ed Balls retweeted
“Chagos has become much more important to the US since the Iran campaign.”
Once a flagship Keir Starmer policy, George Osborne says the Chagos island deal now appears to be dead in the water.
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Ed Balls retweeted
“There is no chancellor in the last 30 years who wouldn’t have said exactly that.”
George Osborne questions why Burnham and Healey are signalling their first budget will be ‘boring’.
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Ed Balls retweeted
“I mean, the AFD would never make that mistake.”
In the wake of the AfD’s electoral success in Germany, Ed Balls says the Portsmouth riots expose how unfocused parties like Reform are in comparison.
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Ed Balls retweeted
🎙️ NEW episode of Political Currency…
🌍 The risks of Burnham and Miliband’s foreign policy…
💷 Why is Healey prepping a ‘boring’ budget?
🇩🇪 Will Merz be the German Keir Starmer?
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Today @EricPickles and I launched the @UKHMF exhibition in the UK Parliament showcasing the Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre, as reported in @JewishChron
Spades in the ground for Holocaust Memorial Centre before Burnham leaves Downing Street, pledges Ed Balls - The Jewish Chronicle thejc.com/news/politics/holo…
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Ed Balls retweeted
Spades in the ground for Holocaust Memorial Centre before Burnham leaves Downing Street, pledges Ed Balls - The Jewish Chronicle thejc.com/news/politics/holo…
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Ed Balls retweeted
A national Memorial begins with a shared responsibility to remember.
Watch this 3-minute film introducing What Britain Knew? - the UK Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre exhibition opening in Parliament before travelling to parliaments and legislatures across the UK.
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Today @EricPickles and I launched our @UKHMF ‘What Britain Knew’ exhibition in Westminster, showcasing the planned UK Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre: we write about it today in @JewishNewsUK before the exhibition tours the UK this autumn
A serious country does not build Holocaust remembrance on comfort, but on truth - Jewish News jewishnews.co.uk/a-serious-c…
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A serious country does not build Holocaust remembrance on comfort, but on truth - Jewish News jewishnews.co.uk/a-serious-c…
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Ed Balls retweeted
“You are putting in place grenades which could explode in months.”
Ed Balls warns that the early release programme needs to be well thought out, or else it could destabilise Andy Burnham’s premiership.
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Ed Balls retweeted
“It’s all been pretty bloody.”
George Osborne speculates that Keir Starmer skipped the opening of the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition, to avoid seeing Andy Burnham. Is this a sign of trouble to come for the new PM?
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🖥️ Out now on YouTube: tr.ee/PCTV
Check out the @YouTube video - our @polcurrency team have done such a brilliant job - and the British Museum lead curator, Michael Lewis @Tostig1066 is excellent - and not just because of the #ncfc shirt
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Ed Balls retweeted
🖥️ Out now on YouTube: tr.ee/PCTV
“It’s an amazing way to see it”
Recorded inside the Bayeux Tapestry exhibit, Ed and George speak to curator Michael Lewis about what makes this new display so special.
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