Brexit's Mexican Standoff
The New Statesman | UK politics and culture
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🗓️ 14 March 2019
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
On this week's New Statesman podcast, Stephen Bush is joined by Patrick Maguire and Eleni Courea (aka the New Statesman's politics desk) to discuss the past week in Brexit and look ahead to the next set of meaningful votes, amendments and other assorted bits of Brexit arcana. Then, in You Ask Us, they consider what the Lords might do if and when a deal does make it through the Commons.
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| 0:00.0 | May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get |
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| 0:43.6 | These disasters also have a huge economic impact. |
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| 1:14.0 | Search AON Global Catastrophe Recap to get started. Hi, I'm Stephen, and in a special edition of the New States and Podcast, the N.S. Politics Desk discusses what's happened and what next. |
| 1:36.0 | So it's a slightly later than usual news |
| 1:44.7 | tapes and podcast because we thought with the various votes going on yesterday |
| 1:50.3 | that we would wait a little bit so we could give you a kind of fuller picture. |
| 1:55.0 | Helen is still on holiday. |
| 1:58.0 | Don't worry, this isn't like when, you know, when a senior labor staffer goes on holiday |
| 2:02.0 | and it actually means being fired. |
| 2:03.6 | She's just on holiday. |
| 2:04.6 | But I'm joined again by the full might of the NS Westminster team, Patrick McGuire. |
| 2:09.1 | Hello and our Anthony Howard scholar Elinie career. |
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