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The Politics Show

Eat Out to Beat Doubt

The Politics Show

The New Statesman

News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.21.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

On today's New Statesman Podcast, Stephen Bush, Anoosh Chakelian and Ailbhe Rea discuss the appetite for the government's Eat Out to Help Out policy. Then, in You Ask Us, they take your question on the Scottish school grades debacle.


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0:00.0

Attention at all passengers. You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in Uber credits to spend on your next train journey.

0:11.0

So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas.

0:16.5

Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply check the Uber app.

0:31.0

There are around 48,000 new cases of lung cancer every year in the UK, but it doesn't affect everyone equally. Incident rates are far higher in deprived areas and there's too often a post-code lottery

0:36.1

when it comes to that all-important early diagnosis.

0:40.0

The New Statesman Podcast is sponsored by MSD, a research intensive global bio pharmaceutical company

0:46.2

active in several key areas of global health, including immunization and oncology.

0:51.8

They've recorded a special sponsored episode with the New Statesman

0:54.9

podcast in which thought leaders explore how the UK can and must tackle health

0:59.8

inequalities to deliver early diagnosis and treatment.

1:04.0

Listen to the episode now.

1:05.6

Look for lung cancer inequalities in the New Statesman podcast feed. On this week's new states from podcast, Anush Alva and I discuss the seeming success

1:28.2

of E-T out to help out, and you ask us, what do we make of the Scottish exam results?

1:33.0

So, diners across the United Kingdom have been,

1:41.0

I was actually being handed a voucher, that's obviously not true, the voucher.

1:43.6

There is at no point this a voucher actually physically exists,

1:46.6

but have been given the opportunity to go out and eat

1:50.8

for the first week of the eat out to help out scheme which is obviously part of the government's overall approach to like, you know, get the economy moving again.

2:00.4

Have either of you ate out to help out? I have indeed eaten out to help out Stephen.

2:06.4

Yesterday my friends and I trips up and down the Lisbon Road in South Belfast seeking a pizza place or really any place

2:16.0

at service food that wasn't completely booked out for all evening. It was

2:20.4

honestly amazing how busy it was. I've never seen that street like that even on a Saturday night and this is obviously a Wednesday evening because as you say this is the first week of the scheme and the Wednesday night is the last night of the week that you can do it because it's Mondays to Wednesdays.

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