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🗓️ 12 May 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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On this week's New Statesman Podcast, Stephen Bush, Anoosh Chakelian and Ailbhe Rea discuss the confusion surrounding the government's latest round of coronavirus communications. Then, in You Ask Us, they pitch their fantasy political parties and who would lead them.
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0:35.1 | Labor has put economic growth at the heart of its pitch for power but under tight constraints |
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1:15.0 | Nuschekelean and I'm joined by my colleagues Stephen Bush and Alva Ray |
1:16.2 | to discuss the latest changes to the lockdown in England and you ask us who would be your |
1:21.7 | dream prime minister and what would the new party be called? |
1:24.5 | So Boris Johnson addressed the nation in a speech on Sunday evening that have been much anticipated on changing some of the |
1:35.4 | lockdown rules in England. So the immediate changes, if you're in England that you're likely to notice |
1:40.4 | straight away this week at some point are the encouragement to go out to exercise not just daily but an unlimited amount. |
1:47.6 | You can sit down in parks, that's been sort of said explicitly now. You can go for drives to other destinations you can play sports with |
1:54.6 | people from your household outside and builders and manufacturing workers and |
1:59.0 | other people who do non-key worker jobs that are impossible to do from home have been encouraged to return to work and that's if they weren't already working because of course they never actually told the construction firms not not to work in England as part of the lockdown. And then there were some |
2:14.3 | future plans announced as well to reopen primary schools for some year groups in |
2:18.8 | June and some parts of the |
2:25.0 | parts of the hospitality sector in July if the virus threat is under a certain amount of control and they've introduced this new five-tier threat system which sort of amounts to what the government's previous standards were before, |
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