Cummings and Goings
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🗓️ 17 November 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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On today's New Statesman Podcast, Stephen Bush, Anoosh Chakelian and Ailbhe Rea look at the fallout from the departure of Dominic Cummings and analyse the ideological rifts at No.10. Then, in You Ask Us, they consider Labour's chances of upsetting the odds at the next election.
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| 1:05.6 | Look for lung cancer inequalities in the New Statesman podcast feed. And On this episode of the New Statesman podcast, we discuss what Dominic Cummings departure |
| 1:27.5 | from Downing Street means for Boris Johnson's leadership, and you ask us, could Labour win the next |
| 1:32.3 | election? |
| 1:32.8 | So between our last recording of the latest new statesman podcast and today, Dominic Cummings has left Downing Street, which sort of lifted a lid on some of the chaos within the Prime Minister's operation. |
| 1:51.0 | We discussed what the departure of Lee Kane, one of Cummings's allies in Downing Street meant, |
| 1:56.0 | but we haven't talked about the sort of Cummings shaped hole itself. |
| 2:00.0 | What first struck you about the news, Stephen, because you actually said when we spoke on the most |
| 2:04.9 | recent podcast that you thought that he wouldn't be staying very much longer, didn't you? |
| 2:08.7 | Yeah, it was a slightly weird moment because podcast listeners who kindly subscribe to the new statesman and there's a great |
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| 2:18.5 | Thursday when I was going well look these two styles, I really do mean the words styles crucially here, because I think |
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