Labour's O-turn
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🗓️ 20 December 2018
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
On this week's New Statesman Podcast, Helen Lewis and Stephen Bush discuss Labour's double reverse ferret on the issue of no-confidencing Theresa May's government. In You Ask Us they tackle the question of whether ministers who resign from the cabinet should be allowed to rejoin in the future. And, finally, Helen is joined by Cariad Lloyd, co-writer of the Lyric Hammersmith's 2018 panto, Dick Whittington, to discuss a very British institution.
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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 |
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| 1:14.0 | Search AON Global Catastrophe Recap to get started. Hello I'm Helen and I'm Stephen and welcome to this week's New States from a podcast. |
| 1:32.8 | Which we talk about Brexit. I mean obviously we talk about Brexit. |
| 1:36.2 | You ask us? |
| 1:37.2 | And also I talk to Cariad Lloyd about Pantos, a great Christmas edition. |
| 1:49.0 | Stephen, would you like to talk about Brexit for the last time in 2018? Yes, I would. |
| 1:51.0 | I mean, actually I did get to write about another policy today which I go on so the oh and S is oh 12 billion pounds in student debt right is now being moved on to the government's deficit books |
| 2:01.3 | Thus slightly upsetting Philip Hammond's master plan |
| 2:03.9 | to have loads of extra money to play with because it's just disappeared at a stroke of |
| 2:07.2 | the O&S pen right yeah which I mean so there there are several fun |
| 2:10.5 | consequences of this none of them are None of them are they? |
| 2:14.0 | Well I mean the first is that it does obviously explode. |
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