Civil War
The Politics Show
The New Statesman
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
On this week's New Statesman Podcast, Stephen Bush, Anoosh Chakelian and Ailbhe Rea discuss the departure of Mark Sedwill as Cabinet Secretary and consider what's next for the fractious relationship between Boris Johnson's government and the Civil Service. Then, in You Ask Us, they answer your questions on where the sacking of Rebecca Long-Bailey leaves the Labour left.
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| 1:27.9 | war with the civil service and you ask us does Rebecca Long Bailey's |
| 1:31.7 | sacking spell the end for the Corbinites? |
| 1:34.0 | So we have the news over the weekend that Mark said will, the Cabinet Secretary will be standing down. |
| 1:46.0 | He's also the National Security Advisor as well in September. |
| 1:50.0 | This is sort of the latest explosive news in the kind of tensions between Downing Street and Dominic Cummings's operation and the civil service and Alva you were covering this over the weekend so why is he |
| 2:04.8 | standing down and what does it actually mean? So I suppose we're never going to |
| 2:10.2 | know for certain why he's standing down because the nature of his role means that as a civil servant he can't speak publicly about these things. |
| 2:20.0 | So we can only really infer it from various newspaper briefings, which probably have varying degrees of reliability. |
| 2:27.8 | But basically, it looks as though he had lots of long-standing disagreements with Dominic Cummings, particularly over the government's |
| 2:35.9 | handling of the coronavirus crisis and that relations, there was a really good piece by |
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