Manifesto Special!
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🗓️ 22 November 2019
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
In this special episode of the New Statesman podcast, Stephen Bush and Anoosh Chakelian discuss the highs and lows from the Liberal Democrats' and Labour's manifesto launches. Then they're joined by the NS's new International Editor, Jeremy Cliffe, to consider how this election is being viewed across the continent.
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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. Hi I'm Stephen and I'm Anush and this week for an extra special manifesto edition of the |
| 0:37.7 | New Statesman podcast we discuss the Lib Dem and Labour Manifestos and then we're joined |
| 0:42.1 | by our new international editor Jeremy Cliff to discuss what |
| 0:44.7 | the election looks like from abroad. |
| 0:47.4 | So it's M-Day, the Conservative Manifest, sorry, no, the one manifest, literally I could have said any party in the word manifesto and it not been wrong other than that one. |
| 1:00.0 | The labor and liberal democrat manifestos have in the last 24 hours both dropped. |
| 1:04.8 | A little before that, the Green Manifesto was unveiled. |
| 1:08.4 | The Labor Manifesto is of course, |
| 1:10.0 | yeah, a humble woman fairly high up the Corbyn Project, said to me other day than this week was |
| 1:13.4 | Bazook a week. |
| 1:14.6 | The televised debate format than Jeremy Corbyn has a very strong previous record in and then |
| 1:20.2 | the manifesto which they credit with turning around the political situation |
| 1:23.4 | the last time. We're not going to talk about its political effect because we don't |
| 1:26.9 | know because it's just dropped and we'll talk about that next week. We thought |
| 1:29.7 | in this kind of manifesto special we would talk a bit about what's in it what's not in it yeah |
| 1:35.2 | what we like and dislike about it are kind of impressions of it so |
| 1:40.2 | Janus what was your kind of impression of the Lib Dems manifesto? |
| 1:43.8 | Well, what's really interesting about the Lib Dems manifesto is that their ideas for spending |
| 1:48.6 | are so different from the Conservative and Labour manifesto. |
| 1:51.6 | So they've been much more what you'd call in |
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