Bully Pulp(r)it
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🗓️ 5 March 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode of the New Statesman Podcast, Stephen Bush and Anoosh Chakelian are joined by Patrick Maguire and Ailbhe Rea to discuss the bullying allegations made against Home Secretary Priti Patel. Then, in You Ask Us, they take your questions on why a Labour leadership candidate would want to actually win, before finally touching (albeit whilst wearing surgical gloves) on the coronavirus panic.
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| 0:53.0 | Search inclusive growth conference to book your free ticket now. Hi I'm Stephen and I'm Anush on this week's news station podcast, we discuss Pretty Patel. |
| 1:14.0 | We prepare to go into the bunker to hide from COVID-19. |
| 1:17.0 | And you ask us, is the Labour leadership election worth winning. So the kind of, well I was actually the big political story, obviously the big political |
| 1:28.4 | story and is indeed just the big story in general which is that this may well be the last |
| 1:33.2 | NS podcast before we start I don't know doing it via Skype yeah in our hazmat |
| 1:38.0 | suits but the the other big political story is of course the allegations of |
| 1:42.2 | bullying made against Pretty Patel. |
| 1:44.0 | There is now one for I think every department she's served in, one from the |
| 1:49.0 | DWP, one from DIFID and one from the home office. |
| 1:52.0 | We're overdue one from the referendum party press office, |
| 1:55.1 | but I'm sure it's coming. |
| 1:57.2 | She denies all of the claims. |
| 1:59.0 | That is, I guess, kind of the big story of the week, isn't it, Anish? Yeah, I think it's a big story of the week isn't it noose? |
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