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James Murray

James Murray

Paymaster General of the United Kingdom

Jul 22, 2026

JakeHOST
47:00
Um, what were you saying?
47:02
No, I think I've finished what I was saying, but just like what separates us from the animals is this innate ability to rotate about a point, our instability, and the rotating about a point can be shown in rolling down a hill.
47:15
And you know, there's other things too, like we can touch our fingers to our thumbs, but squirrels can do that too, to some degree.
47:23
And that skill is somewhat there in other species, gorillas and chimpanzees and stuff.
47:32
Ultimately, as human beings, everything that we do as adults today, we had to undergo a long apprenticeship of learning.
47:40
And animals have instinct where a spider just knows how to spin a web.
47:45
Although it's becoming apparent now watching documentaries of David Attenborough that even the animals have to learn more than what they thought.

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JakeHOST
61:15
So it's, yeah, it's...
37:06
Good morning.
37:07
Good morning, Nick.
37:07
Yes, no, it is a great concern to us.
37:09
And that's why we're launching our consultation today about implementing some changes, which will mean that.
37:16
vapes and vaping products can no longer be targeted and promoted to young people.
37:21
And what this involves is things like removing the colourful packaging, putting it in just plain white packaging with text on it, making sure the vapes themselves are not colourful, they're just black or white or grey.
37:33
and removing the promotion from the front of the counter so it's behind the counter in the way that cigarettes are where at the moment if you're buying a pack of cigarettes you have to ask the shopkeeper to get it for you making it more equivalent to that and as you as you said Nick you know there's about a million 11 to 17 year olds last year tried vaping you know it's not good for kids to be addicted to nicotine it has a real impact on them and we think this is a really important way of making sure they're not promoted to young people.
41:04
What measures are being taken, Secretary of State?
2:15
He's a lame duck, a dead duck prime minister.
2:18
Well, I think we're in a period of transition.
2:20
Um, and I think, you know, one thing I would say about this transition is how smoothly it is going because I think all of us in the Parliamentary Labor Party, there's a great sense of gratitude, um, to Keir for what he did to change our party before the last general election to help us win, uh, that big landslide in the last general election, to set some of the foundations, uh, that he's done under his government over the last two years.
2:43
But now we're all rallying behind Andy-

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16:35
Thankfully, because they took it to the Supreme Court.
16:37
Well, look, I, I, I hope people would see that I've always been respectful of different views o- on this topic, as with others.
16:44
I think my...
16:45
the way I approach things when people have different views, um, is to be respectful and to listen to people's views on this.
8:25
a reason why he didn't do it, isn't
8:26
there? That's what I said.
8:27
There's been some work which has been done already to reduce the rates of business rates that apply to high street premises.
8:36
But for Andy to want to go further is fantastic.
8:38
And I think this is a broader point, if I can just say this.
8:40
It's a broader point around the transition that we're going through as a Labour Party and as a government right now in that I think across the Labour Party we have huge gratitude for what Keir did in terms of winning the last election, laying foundations in the first two years.
8:56
But now is the time to pass the baton.

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16:28
You will give me the list and all the rest of it.
60:19
Why, why the need then from a maternity commissioner? What do they need to achieve? Good morning.
60:24
Uh, thanks, Nick.
60:25
Um, look, I think we know that for far too long, uh, women, um, and babies and their families have been let down by NHS maternity and neonatal services.
60:37
And one of the things I've heard from families who I've met, um, is about women not being listened to, about women's concerns, um, their voices, uh, not being, not being heard, not being acted upon.
60:51
Uh, people-- women being, uh, disregarded, uh, lied to, uh, ignored.
60:57
That needs to change.
60:58
Um, and the step that we're announcing today, accepting, uh, the, uh, principle of a neonatal-- a maternity and neonatal commissioner that Baroness Amos has, has referred to in her report, uh, that will help make sure that women's voices are heard in government when decisions are being taken.
62:30
If you look at issues such as was dealt with recently in Nottinghamshire, why would you imagine Secretary of State we're getting it so badly wrong in such a key area?

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