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Money! I Shrunk the Economy

The New Statesman | UK politics and culture

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🗓️ 22 May 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

On this week's New Statesman Podcast, Stephen Bush, Anoosh Chakelian and Ailbhe Rea discuss how the economic impact of covid-19 is pushing its way to the political foreground. Then, in You Ask Us, they tackle your question on whether PMQs has any cut-through in the 'real world'.


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0:16.5

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0:27.0

The New Statesman Podcast is sponsored by the Center for Progressive Policy. New Statesman Podcasts listeners are invited to their free annual conference,

0:31.0

which this year asks can labor deliver fair growth

0:35.1

Labor has put economic growth at the heart of its pitch for power but under tight constraints

0:40.4

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0:48.0

for a day of debate and discussion with a keynote speech by Ed Miliband.

0:52.0

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0:53.0

Search inclusive growth conference to book your free ticket now. Hello on this week's news takes from I, Alva and Anouche discuss

1:14.0

Anilis Dodds, the economic situation and whether or not we'll see a return to austerity.

1:18.4

Plus you ask us, PMQs, what is it good for?

1:30.0

So as we've entered the second phase of lockdown, a lot of the conversation has been shifting to not only what's been happening to the economy,

1:35.1

but how it can possibly recover. And Alva, you interviewed the Shadow Chancellor this week,

1:41.1

Aneliste Dodds. Did she give you any insights into sort of what

1:44.7

labour's policy will be? Because at the moment they're kind of critiquing the

1:48.3

government but not necessarily offering their own solutions, are they?

1:51.6

Yeah, I'm so I suppose I've sort of got two answers to that

1:56.4

in that I did ask her directly about her priorities

2:00.7

as she's taken on this role. And I suppose her answer was quite vague but I still think

2:05.9

a bit instructive where I think but then also I think there's a broader point about the things

2:09.5

that came out in the whole interview which I'll talk about after but in terms of what she said their first priority is to

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