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The Politics Show

The New Statesman

News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.21.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

On this week's New Statesman Podcast, Stephen Bush and Ailbhe Rea discuss Labour MP Dawn Butler being pulled over by the police. Then, in You Ask Us, they tackle your question on what the modern signifier of being middle class is.


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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. Welcome to the New States from Podcast with me Alvaray and our political editor Stephen Bush

1:27.8

while Anush is away on holiday. I hadn't realized before that Anush and Stephen Bush rhyme.

1:33.8

On this week's episode Stephen and I talk about Don Butler being stopped by the police

1:40.0

and you ask us how would you define middle class?

1:43.3

So as we are recording,

1:51.4

Kirst Armour has just tweeted a response to the news that Don Butler,

1:57.0

Labor, MP and former Deputy Leadership Candidate was stopped by the police yesterday in an incident that she has described

2:05.8

as racial profiling. She has accused the Metropolitan Police of and there's been a bit of an outcry on

2:12.1

Twitter since at the silence from Kere Starmer and his front bench.

2:19.2

And right before we started recording he did he did tweet something about it which has been accused by some people of being a bit

2:25.0

mealy marzed. Oh and it's also worth saying before we start talking about it that

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