Communications Failure
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🗓️ 23 March 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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On this week's first New Statesman Podcast, Stephen Bush and Anoosh Chakelian are joined by Patrick Maguire and Ailbhe Rea to discuss the government's continued fight against the coronavirus. Then, in You Ask Us, they tackle the questions around Alex Salmond's acquittal and, finally, Patrick debriefs the team on his upcoming profile of Keir Starmer.
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| 0:53.0 | Search inclusive growth conference to book your free ticket now. Welcome to the New Statesman podcast with me Anush Herkellian and my colleagues Stephen Bush, |
| 1:14.4 | Alver Ray and Patrick McGuire. Today we're going to talk about the government's response to the |
| 1:20.0 | coronavirus. You ask us about Alex Sammon's trial and we also go through Patrick's |
| 1:26.4 | very long profile of Kiestama to work out what kind of labor leader that he'll be and |
| 1:31.0 | we're also planning on doing two podcasts a week now in these new times, so tune in on |
| 1:36.8 | Mondays and Thursdays. So it's our second socially distanced New Statesman podcast and our first in our new shape so we will be doing this twice a week so Anush we've had our first big |
| 1:57.4 | sort of set of policy meet on income protection for people in this period in which the |
| 2:01.6 | economy is is frozen in carbonite. |
| 2:03.6 | How did Rishi Sunak do? |
| 2:05.4 | So Rishi Sunak announced some measures to try and make sure that workers aren't going to be laid |
| 2:10.1 | off in this time even if their businesses aren't running. |
| 2:13.0 | So that would be for employees through grants |
| 2:16.3 | that are from the government to pay up to 80% |
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