Brexit Delayed Until Halloween
The New Statesman | UK politics and culture
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🗓️ 11 April 2019
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
On this week's New Statesman podcast, Stephen Bush and Helen Lewis are discussing the latest Brexit developments, now that Theresa May has been granted a six-month extension. Then, in You Ask Us, they respond to a question on how proportional representation would've affected the Brexit process, and, finally, Helen is speaking to actor and writer Andy Nyman about his show Ghost Stories and the Jewish experience in Britain.
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| 1:10.0 | You can access its research and reporting at AON.com, search AON Global Catastrophe Recap to get started. Hello I'm Helen and I'm Stephen and welcome to the New States from podcast. |
| 1:29.6 | This week I run the same joke into the ground. By talking about the Brexit negotiations, |
| 1:34.0 | I also talk to Andy Nyman |
| 1:36.0 | about the politics of horror stories |
| 1:38.0 | and what the Jewish experience in Europe is like. Stephen, it was a very, very late night for you this week, right? You were a |
| 1:49.2 | filing at like 1 a.m. because Theresa May came out of the summit the head of |
| 1:54.8 | Emmanuel Macron in a bloody head of Emmanuel Macron in a fist and shouted that's it |
| 2:00.0 | you bastons I've got my extension that's how it happened yeah semi I mean so it's |
| 2:04.8 | odd right because so I mean I'm actually going to defend the lateness of the |
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