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Members discuss employment levels and concerns about job losses in this highlight from the chamber. Catch up.
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Making Manchester Britain’s second city in Lord Speaker’s Corner this month as Jim O’Neill, Lord O’Neill of Gatley, speaks to Lord McFall of Alcluith.
The former minister and ex-Goldman Sachs chief economist talks tariffs and US President Donald Trump’s approach, regulating AI and greater devolution across the UK.
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‘The US is just so obsessed about being big, it doesn’t understand that by others becoming bigger, the US can become wealthier.’
Jim O’Neill, Lord O’Neill of Gatley, is an ex-Treasury Minister, former Chief Economist at Goldman Sachs and Crossbench member of the House of Lords.
In this latest episode of Lord Speaker’s Corner, Lord O’Neill shares his perspectives with Lord McFall of Alcluith on a range of topics, from China and the USA to AI, the risks of rising antimicrobial resistance and why Manchester should be prioritised as Britain’s second city.
At Goldman Sachs, Lord O’Neill coined the term BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) to describe the group of emerging economies. In this episode he shares his thoughts on how that has progressed, as well as President Donald Trump’s current tariffs approach by the US. He explains ‘the path which Trump seems to have embarked on, of aggressive confrontation, is not likely to be sustained because it is in America’s interests for China to continue to do well economically.’
He also shares his thoughts on the current approach to AI, warning against letting tech sectors self-regulate: ‘this idea that just let the financial sector regulate itself and there’d be no problem…that didn’t turn out too well, did it? And there’s a lot of these AI guys wanting to do the same.’
Lord O’Neill also calls for greater devolution, with powers for regions to raise local taxes, suggesting ‘people here (in Westminster) need to have excitement about giving responsibility to local people in these places to make a national difference.’ He also calls for devolution on welfare-spending with health-linked budgets for local authorities: ‘There’s a serious case for exploring devolving aspects of the welfare support budget as it links to critical health illness’
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Did you catch our latest highlight from Lords questions?
Members pressed the government on its plans to protect young people from online harms. In this new episode of Inside Lords Questions, we catch up with Baroness Berger to hear why she raised the issue and what action she wants to see the government take to better protect young people online.
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Look out for future episodes of Inside Lords Questions where we’ll speak to different members about the questions they raise to government. Catch up on previous episodes https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLilBYVf0P9abs7iH2ILMKNy1zWa5xHFB5
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Get a behind-the-scenes look at where members make and shape laws, press government for action and debate important issues. Join Visitor Engagement Assistant Nick and Curator Eloise as they take us on a tour through the history, design and layout of the second chamber of Parliament. You’ll get to see some of the historic objects within the chamber and find out how they support members in their work today.
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Lord Black of Brentwood asks an urgent question in the Lords chamber on action being taken to secure the release from prison in Egypt of British citizen Alaa Abd el-Fattah, in light of the condition of his mother, Laila Soueif, who is at risk of death as a result of her ongoing hunger strike in protest at her son’s detention.
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