Live 2019 Autopsy
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🗓️ 5 December 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
On this week's New Statesman Podcast, Stephen Bush is joined by Ailbhe Rea and Patrick Maguire live from the Cambridge Literary Festival where they discuss their biggest successes, failures and surprises from 2019, and cast an eye over how the election is shaping up in the week before the country heads to the polls.
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| 0:00.0 | Attention at all passengers. You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in Uber credits to spend on your next train journey. |
| 0:11.0 | So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas. |
| 0:16.5 | Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply check the Uber app. And the I'm Stephen Bush. I'm Stephen Bush. |
| 0:35.0 | Welcome to a live recording of the new states and podcast with... |
| 0:43.1 | I'm Alpha Ray, the political correspondent along with... |
| 0:46.9 | Patrick McGuire, I am also the political correspondents. |
| 0:50.1 | A new Shekeleon, for those of you who listen to the podcast, is sorry she can't be here because she's celebrating her 30th birthday. |
| 0:56.0 | And I've only just absorbed the implications of the fact that she's celebrating her 30th birthday, and yet all of us will free this evening. |
| 1:03.2 | I've known for a decade. |
| 1:06.4 | We've covered three general elections together, |
| 1:09.2 | a referendum, scholarship independence referendum, local council elections, student union elections. |
| 1:16.0 | And that's exactly why you're not invited. |
| 1:18.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:19.0 | So we're obviously going to talk about the looming horror that is the general election quite a lot but I thought |
| 1:23.8 | we'd also a little bit look back at the year that is gone so I'm going to put you |
| 1:28.1 | both on the spot here and kind of ask you Patrick what is the thing that you got the |
| 1:32.3 | biggest thing you've got wrong so far? |
| 1:34.4 | Well, God, so far, yeah, it's a low bar. |
| 1:38.0 | So on the day that Theresa May resigned, it was a Friday in May |
| 1:41.2 | and I was actually off work for some reason and like every day I take off work I spent |
| 1:47.2 | it watching Sky News and tweeting about politics and when Theresa May, for context I had the week before dropped the Tory leadership |
| 1:56.4 | interview that everybody wanted to read, which was 3,000 words of Mark Harper, David Cameron's former chief whip, not saying |
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