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How much does it cost to top the Premier League? A secret £830 million, it seems. Manchester City, and its billionaire Abu Dhabi owners, have been found guilty of a scheme to hide millions pumped into the club, breaking UK spending rules – and possibly a few laws too. It's a problem that kicked off in the beautiful game, but is landing now in politics. In Burnham's celebrated first speech at the Labour Party conference as leader he spoke against big corporations trampling on the average person. So will he stand with his city's big investors, or with those who...
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B2 · Upper-intermediate
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- 75% of the words are B1 or easier.
- 186 words a minute: natural, fairly fast speech.
- 192 harder words (B2 and up) in the whole episode.
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This is a global production. Manchester City fan, myself... Yeah. Like me, he is blue in football, but true red in his politics.
And look, while we're on football, can I just say to all those United fans who've been gloating all week, you're still crapping, you know you are. Anyway. That is Lucy Powell, Education Secretary and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party,
closing the party conference in Liverpool today, a making light of a financial scandal the likes of which Britain has never seen before, in Manchester, where Manchester City are in deep trouble. That might be unwise in itself, but Lucy Powell has done something else,
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