The Rest Is Politics
473. Europe vs. Trump: Competing Visions for a Ukraine Peace Deal (Question Time)
26 Nov 2025
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Yep. Oh, sorry, I forgot you were such an internationalist, and I'm just very domestic and focused on the UK. Exactly, that's... The UK budget presented by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves. So we'll do that Wednesday afternoon. This is a sort of budget, UK budget-free zone.
Yes, so we're going to look, I think, at the big international issues at the moment. We're going to return to Ukraine, which people, I hope, have listened to our pod where we went in detail into the Russia-Trump-Ukraine plan. We're going to look at these big multilateral meetings that have been happening this week, in particular COP and the G20, so climate and the G20.
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