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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Jim Waterson Media editor

‘We’re frenemies’: George Osborne and Ed Balls to launch economics podcast

Ed Balls and George Osborne recording an episode of their podcast, sat at desks wearing microphones and headphones in front of a bookcase
Ed Balls and George Osborne recording a pilot episode of their forthcoming podcast launching in the autumn. Photograph: Rob Nicholson/Persephonica

George Osborne is launching an economics podcast with his “frenemy” Ed Balls in an attempt to capitalise on the success of shows such as The Rest is Politics.

Osborne, the architect of the Conservatives’ austerity policies which imposed deep cuts on British public services, spent four years opposite Balls in the House of Commons. But since leaving frontline politics the pair have become a marketable media double act, appearing together on political shows to debate the state of the economy.

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