4.2 • 157 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2017
⏱️ 37 minutes
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0:00.0 | Pretty gloomy outside right now. |
0:02.2 | A shot of nature would help us all feel better. |
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0:33.7 | Hello and welcome to the Sunday with New Paterson podcast. What would the economy look like under Labour? |
0:40.3 | This week I tried to get to the bottom of it with the shadow chancellor John MacDonald. |
0:44.4 | I was also joined by the Education Secretary Justine Greening and Sinn Féin's Brexit spokesman, David Cullinan. |
0:50.2 | Thank you. How 12 months changes things. |
1:01.8 | This time last year, Theresa May was riding high in the polls, seemingly untouchable, a Prime Minister well and truly in a honeymoon period. |
1:09.7 | Jeremy Corbyn, by contrast, was engaged in a constant battle with his own MPs for the soul |
1:14.5 | of the Labour Party. |
1:15.9 | But since June's election, politics has been flipped on its head. |
1:19.5 | Now it's Mrs May with her back against the wall, fending off attacks from all sides, |
1:23.3 | while Mr Corbin tells us he and his team are preparing for government. |
1:27.9 | Back in the days when we all thought Mr Corbin was driving labour into political irrelevance, |
1:32.4 | it was often John MacDonald, his friend and shadow chancellor, |
1:35.5 | who would come on to shows like these and tell us we were wrong. |
1:38.6 | Things would turn, he said, just you wait and see. |
1:41.1 | And he was right. |
1:43.2 | Now, the most radical overhaul of Britain's economy since the 1980s is a realistic prospect. |
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