Levelling Down
The New Statesman | UK politics and culture
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🗓️ 27 November 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
On today's New Statesman Podcast, Stephen Bush, Anoosh Chakelian and Ailbhe Rea discuss the Spending Review and whether we are heading for the long-awaited next level, or slipping back into austerity. Then, in You Ask Us, they look at the options facing Keir Starmer's Labour party ahead of a prospective Brexit vote.
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| 1:26.9 | Anush Herkelion and Stephen Bush. |
| 1:29.4 | On today's episode we discussed the spending review and you ask us why won't labor hold a free |
| 1:35.9 | vote on a possible Brexit deal? |
| 1:40.9 | So we had the spending review yesterday with a few headline announcements on the public sector |
| 1:50.3 | payfrees which was already trailed the cut to the overseas aid budget and a |
| 1:57.5 | leveling up agenda among other things to start off with a nurse you wrote a piece to mark it coming out arguing really |
| 2:07.1 | that the discourse we've had in recent times that about the end of austerity wasn't |
| 2:11.7 | really quite accurate. |
| 2:13.2 | Could you sort of explain that take on the spending review? |
| 2:17.2 | Sure. I've been tracking this for quite a long time now, sort of ever since Philip Hammond, |
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