EMQs: Should PMs be youthful or experienced?

EMQs: Should PMs be youthful or experienced?

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Is it risky for the Chancellor to attack Trump?

The Middle East conflict raged on during our Easter break and George Osborne comes back to us with news from Washington and word from friends in high places, like incoming Fed Chair Kevin Warsh. He and Ed Balls discuss the failed peace talks from George’s other mate, JD Vance, an ...  Show more

What If: George was PM during Covid?

In another special ‘What If’ edition of EMQs George Osborne and Ed Balls consider the would be worlds and outcomes, if just one historical event went another way. In a more theoretical ‘What If’ they consider what would happen if MPs couldn’t abstain and had to vote aye or nay on ...  Show more

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