Labour and Tory rebels split the difference
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🗓️ 21 February 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
On this week's New Statesman podcast, it's a week without Brexit (kind of)! Helen Lewis and Stephen Bush are back to look at the formation of The Independent Group and their 11 splitter MPs. They also touch upon the case of Shamima Begum, before Tom Gatti and Kate Mossman deliver The Back Half, this week looking at Alan Partridge's return to the BBC and the noniversary of Danny Boyle's adaptation of Alex Garland's The Beach.
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| 1:29.0 | Hi, I'm Helen. |
| 1:30.0 | Split. We're really genuinely excited because it's kind of about Brexit but not really |
| 1:34.4 | about Brexit this week as we talk about both Labour and Tory defectors. |
| 1:37.7 | Plus our thoughts on Sajabid and the back half Kate and, talk to us about Alan Partridge. |
| 1:45.0 | Stephen, there's actually news. I really can't, I can't tell you how excited I am by the concept that |
| 1:52.0 | actually things are changing in British politics. |
| 1:54.6 | I know I probably shouldn't get carried away. |
| 1:56.6 | As we're recording this we've just had three Tory MPs have left. |
| 2:00.6 | Are they left definitely to join TIG? |
| 2:02.4 | They have left to join the independent group. |
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