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The New Statesman | UK politics and culture

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🗓️ 17 April 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

On this week's New Statesman Podcast, Stephen Bush, Anoosh Chakelian, Patrick Maguire and Ailbhe Rea gather to discuss Keir Starmer's decision to push the government on its coronavirus exit strategy, as well as the thorny political question of social care. Then, in You Ask Us, Stephen and Anoosh are joined by the New Statesman's digital culture writer, Sarah Manavis, to answer your questions on the 5G conspiracy theories.


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0:00.0

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0:16.5

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0:27.0

The New Statesman Podcast is sponsored by the Center for Progressive Policy. New Statesman Podcasts listeners are invited to their free annual conference,

0:31.0

which this year asks can labor deliver fair growth

0:35.1

Labor has put economic growth at the heart of its pitch for power but under tight constraints

0:40.4

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0:48.0

for a day of debate and discussion with a keynote speech by Ed Miliband.

0:52.0

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0:53.0

Search inclusive growth conference to the New Statesman podcast. I'm joined by my colleagues Stephen Alva and Patrick to discuss Kia Stama's response to the coronavirus and his call for the government to publish their exit strategy.

1:21.6

We talk about what's going on in the UK's care homes, and

1:25.0

Sarah Manavis, our digital culture writer, joins us for our You Ask Us on the 5G

1:30.4

conspiracy theory. So this week we've seen sort of Kirstama's first performance really as an opposition leader and he's gone in hard on the government about

1:46.7

clarifying their exit strategy or at least their different plans for how we can come up with an exit strategy from lockdown.

1:54.0

And this has been quite controversial, hasn't it?

1:56.0

Because some people have been criticizing him by saying, well, there's more pressing things to hold the government to account on at the moment,

2:02.0

like the level of testing and the supply of

2:05.3

protective equipment to front line workers and also as Stephen's written many

2:11.1

times we're nowhere near exiting the lockdown if you look at the

2:15.2

actual figures of the disease transmission and the people dying in hospital.

2:20.1

So why has he gone for this angle?

2:22.2

It does seem jarring when you listen to it sometimes.

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