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🗓️ 19 May 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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On today's episode of the New Statesman Podcast, Stephen Bush, Anoosh Chakelian and Ailbhe Rea discuss the thorny question of when schools ought to return, before, in You Ask Us, looking at the lessons that might be learnt from the Liberal Democrats 2019 election autopsy.
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1:16.0 | Patrick McGuire is still on holiday, |
1:18.0 | to discuss whether or not schools should open |
1:21.0 | and you ask us what went wrong for the Liberal Democrats in the election. |
1:30.5 | So there's been an ongoing round, really since Boris Johnson did his statement to announce some of the loosening of the lockdown restrictions. |
1:39.0 | The row is between the teaching unions and the government over when schools can go back and |
1:46.0 | whether it's safe for teachers to go back to school. And why has this become such an |
1:50.4 | ongoing route? I mean what is the reason why because there's so much other |
1:53.7 | controversy with sending people back to work. Why has this been being the one that has |
1:57.7 | stood out? I think this is going to sound really awful but I suspect that |
2:02.1 | actually to be honest because it's one of the |
2:04.8 | ones where actually the trade-offs on both ends are also awful, I think there's something |
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