Jess We Can't
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🗓️ 23 January 2020
⏱️ 38 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 Jess Phillips' departure from the Labour leadership race, take your question on Lisa Nandy's route to the top job, and look at the nuclear cockroach of British politics: the Welsh Labour party.
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| 0:00.0 | May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get |
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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 discuss the |
| 0:37.4 | Labour leadership election and why Jess Phillips pulled out we talk about the |
| 0:41.1 | curious survival of the Welsh Labour Party and whether or not that survival is threatened. |
| 0:45.3 | And you ask us, could Lee Sinandy win. And then there were four, one of the Labour leadership candidates has dropped out. |
| 0:58.7 | Jess Phillips brought an end to her campaign this week. |
| 1:03.2 | Alva, you wrote a very good and interesting analysis about that campaign and what went wrong |
| 1:08.5 | with it? |
| 1:09.5 | Yeah, cheerio, Jess. |
| 1:10.8 | I think probably people who've been following the race closely saw it coming because of her performance at the first Labour Party hustings with members, |
| 1:20.0 | which she was so bad that she described herself as awful in a peace in the guardian. |
| 1:25.0 | I mean my own take on it is that she was just really unprepared for the realities of |
| 1:31.0 | front line politics basically with all the respect in the world for someone |
| 1:34.8 | who's prepared to put themselves through that process and go for it. |
| 1:38.3 | I think that she is a very specific skill set as a Corbin Skeptic Backbencher where she carved a niche for herself as a very articulate and arguably quite relatable Corbin critic and got a lot of traction for that and you know was had that |
| 1:54.7 | reinforced time and again and then also you know it was decided that she's very |
| 1:59.1 | likable because she could do you know sort of cushy newspaper interviews that were quite well received and |
| 2:05.1 | I think that was taken as evidence that she could run for leader and had the full |
| 2:08.9 | skill set of political communication and leadership which she just didn't quite have and then she just |
| 2:15.3 | crumbled when she came into contact with an actual leadership contest. |
| 2:18.7 | Yeah and especially this leadership contest in particular because as you say there is the entire the general |
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