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Podcast: Beyond Currency
Episode: 9 AUGUST - Did Sunak Overstep?
Description: "Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak appears to have overstepped his authority, or at least misjudged the depth of his relationship with the Prime Minister.
He seems to have written to Boris Johnson to call for a significant easing of travel restrictions in order to speed the recovery of the economy from Coronavirus. Johnson appears to have taken the letter as both a demand that he should act and a threat that he is undoing Sunak’s work in saving the economy.
According to several weekend newspapers, Johnson was apoplectic with rage even suggesting that it might be time for Su...