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Aggravating Raabery

The New Statesman | UK politics and culture

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🗓️ 10 April 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

On this week's New Statesman Podcast, Stephen Bush, Anoosh Chakelian and Patrick Maguire sit down to discuss the latest from the covid-19 crisis, the response of the devolved governments, and then, in You Ask Us, they wonder whether things would be better or worse if this crisis were happening at the peak of Theresa May's difficulties. 


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Search inclusive growth conference to book your free ticket now. Hi it's Stephen on this week's news station podcast we discuss our never ending

1:13.7

lockdown, how devolution is responding to the crisis, and you ask us how of this

1:18.4

have all played out differently if Theresa May was still Prime Minister. So, I mean, I was actually by the time you listen to this, it actually isn't true for any

1:30.5

of our listeners unless you're catching up on this very late.

1:33.7

But notionly, it is not yet certain that the lockdown will continue,

1:38.8

although of course I think anyone who's capable of reading the government's website or indeed paying attention to what the first minister of Wales says or the health secretary of Wales or indeed any of the devolved governments.

1:52.0

The extension is going to continue past the end of the Easter weekend.

1:56.0

And I thought was an interesting kind of a useful and for us to kind of talk about, you know,

1:59.5

politics and how it's sort of going in the age of social distancing.

2:04.0

Well, it's been a bit of a strange week, hasn't it, in terms of politics?

2:08.0

Because we've been, not only been in the sort of confected social distancing limbo which like you say of course is going to be

2:16.1

reviewed and then and then continued but also we've been in the limbo of having the

2:19.9

Prime Minister remaining in hospital as well which means that the number of or the extent of questions that, you know, journalists can ask at those press conferences, etc, sort of are limited in terms of that because you know for your reader's sake or whoever's sake you have to ask the sort of obligatory what can Dom Rab do in this period as the de facto deputy and what about this scenario would would you be able to carry on the Brexit

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