Barnier, Biden and Boring?

06/12/2024 19 min
Barnier, Biden and Boring?

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Episode Synopsis

Co-hosts Charlotte Henry and Emma Burnell unpack a dramatic week at home and abroad. They start with the government's collapse in France, discuss US President Joe Biden pardoning his son and then analyse Sir Keir Starmer's latest speech. The Prime Minister was attempting to reset his government, although the Labour spinners were not putting it quite like that. 





Defiant Macron vows to stay on as French president and will appoint PM within days – The Guardian

Statement from President Joe Biden
PM speech on Plan for Change: 5 December 2024
Charlotte Henry on Threads

Charlotte Henry on BlueSky

Charlotte Henry's website and newsletter – The Addition

Emma Burnell on Twitter

Emma Burnell on BlueSky

Emma Burnell's newsletter, Hard Thinking on the Soft Left

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