Labour's Russian Doll of Dissent
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🗓️ 7 February 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
On this week's podcast, Helen Lewis and Stephen Bush are examining rumours of a coming split within the Labour party. Then, in You Ask Us, they consider whether Liam Neeson deserves the condemnation he's received, and, finally, Helen speaks to an SME CEO about the prospect of a People's Vote.
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| 1:14.0 | Search AON Global Catastrophe Recap to get started. Hi I'm Stephen and I'm Helen and this week's news from podcast, we talk about Labour Split. |
| 1:33.7 | And we talk about Liam Neeson's slightly controversial comments. |
| 1:37.8 | And we talk about Brexit. |
| 1:39.2 | Of course we talk about Brexit. exit. |
| 1:50.0 | Stephen, the Labour Party. Still exists. |
| 1:51.0 | Good, I'm really excited to hear that. |
| 1:53.0 | Well, the old lad's been up to. |
| 1:54.0 | You've written your column this week about a potential labour split, |
| 1:58.0 | which you wrote about for us last summer, |
| 2:00.0 | with a sort of sense of inevitability that it would be a case of when not if but that |
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