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🗓️ 8 May 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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On this week's New Statesman Podcast, Patrick Maguire and Ailbhe Rea replace Stephen Bush with Steve Baker to ask the former-ERG chair to explain why he thinks lockdown needs lifting. They also discuss how public opinion is impacting the early days of Keir Starmer's leadership.
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1:14.0 | This week, Anush and Stephen are away, |
1:16.0 | so it's me and Patrick. |
1:18.0 | We are joined by the MP Steve Baker to discuss the lockdown and we'll be talking a bit about the week that Labour has had. |
1:30.0 | So we are joined by a long-standing friend of the new statesman in Steve Baker. I'm not sure whether |
1:37.5 | he'd agree with that description. But there we are, I've anointed him. A friend of the new statesman |
1:42.0 | podcast. Steve, |
1:43.0 | welcome, behind enemy lines as you might see it. |
1:45.0 | Well, look, Patrick, you've always been a great friend to me and I've always thought |
1:51.6 | that your coverage of me was very fair, but I'm not behind enemy lines. |
1:56.2 | I think it's very, very important that we'll talk to one another across the full spectrum of opinion. |
2:00.4 | But thank you for a generous introduction. |
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