Labour Five Brexit Demands
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🗓️ 14 February 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
On this week's New Statesman podcast, Helen Lewis and Stephen Bush are looking at Jeremy Corbyn's five (new) demands for the Brexit process. Helen then speaks to playwright Laura Wade about her new production, Home, I'm Darling. And finally, in You Ask Us, Stephen and Helen tackle the thorny issue of why Labour's splitters don't simply join the Lib Dems.
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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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| 0:20.0 | 2023 has been the deadliest year for natural disasters since 2010, with over 75,000 deaths, predominantly from earthquakes and floods. |
| 0:33.0 | That's according to the 2023 Q3 Global Catastrophe Recap report |
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| 0:43.6 | These disasters also have a huge economic impact. |
| 0:46.7 | While global insured losses from natural disaster events had reached 88 billion by the close |
| 0:52.1 | of the third quarter, economic losses totaled 295 billion, |
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| 1:14.0 | Search AON Global Catastrophe Recap to get started. Hello I'm Helen, I'm Stephen and on this week's new statesman podcast. Helen meets with Laura Wade. The playwright. We talk about Brexit. Yes, we always talk about Brexit. |
| 1:37.8 | But we talk about something that isn't Brexit as well. |
| 1:40.0 | You ask us, why don't would be splitters just join the Lib Dems? |
| 1:47.0 | Stephen, do you know what, I've been writing the magazine this week about natalism, |
| 1:51.0 | about Victor Orbán's frankly terrifying plans to turn every woman in Hungary into a baby machine. |
| 1:56.3 | So compared to that, give me the sweet light relief of what's happening in Brexit. |
| 2:00.7 | So Jeremy Corbyn, since we last doth met, I was getting into character. |
| 2:06.0 | Okay, if this your new character is a kind of person who faxes and therefore is quite old school. |
| 2:11.0 | Yeah, ain't no school like the old school. |
| 2:14.2 | So Jeremy Corbyn, since our last episode, wrote a letter to Theresa May in which he set out five demands |
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