Labour's Anti-Semitism Row (part 94)
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🗓️ 1 August 2018
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Helen and Stephen discuss the ongoing row over anti-Semitism in the Labour Party, as well as the internal politics of the party's NEC elections and the possible deselection ballots against pro-Brexit MPs Kate Hoey and Frank Field. They also answer a popular listener question: will and should there be a “people's vote” on the exit deal Theresa May eventually strikes with the EU?
Further reading:
—Jon Lansman's obituary for Vladimir Derer.
—Stephen's blog on Pete Willsman.
—Could a Labour split stop Brexit?
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| 0:47.0 | and AC. UK. Hello I'm Helen and I'm Stephen and welcome to the New States from |
| 1:05.1 | podcast this week we discuss labors anti-Semitism crisis and we talk about |
| 1:09.2 | deselecting Kate Hoi and Frank Field plus ask us, should there be a people's vote? |
| 1:14.4 | Hello, we're joining you from the extremely, |
| 1:22.4 | actually quite cool |
| 1:23.4 | podcast bunker to talk about, well, what are we going to talk about? |
| 1:26.8 | Later on the summer, Steve and I going to do some special episodes where we talk |
| 1:29.7 | about everything that's not Brexit. |
| 1:31.0 | I thought we might call it no Brexit please |
| 1:32.8 | we're British or you know no Brexit please I'm Helen and I'm really worried about |
| 1:36.4 | Brexit but I also can't do anything about it and it's really getting me down. |
| 1:38.9 | So if you have policy areas that you'd like us to talk about do you write in or |
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