meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
The New Statesman | UK politics and culture

How to Save the United Kingdom: Gordon Brown special

The New Statesman | UK politics and culture

The New Statesman

News & Politics, Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

On today's New Statesman Podcast, Stephen Bush, Anoosh Chakelian and Ailbhe Rea are joined by special guest Gordon Brown to discuss devolution, Scottish Labour, Jeremy Corbyn, the covid crisis and much more.


If you are a New Statesman digital subscriber you can get advert free access to this podcast by visiting newstatesman.com/nssubscribers.


Send us your You Ask Us questions at youaskus.co.uk.



Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get

0:08.0

10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home in the rain again.

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. In.

1:13.0

On today's new statesman podcast we're joined by a very special guest, Gordon Brown, to discuss

1:28.0

his latest piece for the New Statesman, which reimagined the structure of the United Kingdom.

1:32.8

We're delighted to be joined by the former Labour Prime Minister and Chancellor Gordon Brown.

1:43.7

Thanks so much for joining us today.

1:45.7

Now in this week's issue of the new statesman, you've written a fascinating piece,

1:49.3

essentially reimagining the structure of the United Kingdom, and your vision came just in time in a week

1:55.0

when Boris Johnson reportedly called Devolution in Scotland a disaster and Tony Blair's biggest mistake.

2:00.8

I wanted to ask you first of all what you made of those comments because you write yourself in the piece that it was naive not to anticipate that devolution could create a megaphone for intensifying resentment.

2:11.6

Yeah, but that doesn't make devolution wrong.

2:14.0

First of all, it's good to be able to doing this piece with the new statesman and for this broadcast.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The New Statesman, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The New Statesman and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.