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🗓️ 27 February 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

On this week's New Statesman Podcast, Stephen Bush and Anoosh Chakelian are joined by Ailbhe Rea and Patrick Maguire to discuss Sajid Javid's personal statement on his departure from the Treasury. Then, in You Ask Us, they take your questions on the supposed ambiguity of Labour leadership candidates' positions, before, finally, looking at the Marmot Review.


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0:00.0

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0:11.0

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0:16.5

Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply check the Uber app. Hi I'm Stephen and I'm Anush and on this week's news station podcast we talk

0:36.4

about Sadr Javard's departure we talk about the Marmo review into and people laugh at me incessantly about the fact I can't pronounce the Marmo review...

0:46.6

Marmot review. Anyway, all that and much more on this week's exciting super sawaway episode of the

0:51.6

New States from podcast.

0:53.0

So Sadie Javid, who resigned Fortnighth ago, however long ago, has done his sort of personal statement which is a bit where

1:03.7

often used to personal remarks but mainly is used by departing ministers to explain why

1:09.8

they've departed and they're basically two flavors of that statement the kind of like

1:14.2

I love the Prime Minister and I'm looking forward to working constructively from the

1:17.5

backbenchers and then there's the Jeffrey Howe yeah it was the first good one in a very very long time in terms of wrong to conceive

1:25.6

policy of a spectator sport but in terms of what it actually said he said stuff in terms of

1:30.4

you know substantive policy critique of the of the government

1:33.1

compared to Boris Johnson's own personal statement

1:35.5

after resigning.

1:36.4

Not they gave a personal statement, he gave a speech

1:37.7

in a Brexit debate, which was terrible.

1:39.5

But Javits was pretty out there.

1:40.9

Yeah.

1:41.6

And essentially what he did was he basically went you know I love

1:45.2

you you're wonderful great guy but did I mention then I think your economic policy

1:49.8

is terrible? It was a real mic drop moment at the end. I thought I love that

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