Nandy Alexander or Keir Royal?
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🗓️ 16 January 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
On this week's New Statesman Podcast, Stephen Bush and Anoosh Chakelian are joined by the NS's political correspondence duo of Patrick Maguire and Ailbhe Rea to discuss, first, the Nandy surge and other Labour leadership talking points. Then, in You Ask Us, they consider whether there's a future for the Liberal Democrats before rounding things out with a look at the benefits freeze and other welfare policy issues.
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| 0:00.0 | May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get |
| 0:08.0 | 10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home in the rain again. |
| 0:16.5 | Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. Hello I'm Stephen and I'm a noosh and I'm Stephen and I'm Anush and on this week's news |
| 0:35.4 | and on this week's newsdays and podcast we discuss the labor leadership race you ask us what's |
| 0:39.6 | the future for the liberal Democrats and what does the unfreezing of benefits really mean? |
| 0:45.0 | So it's been another week in which in many ways we've all kind of well I certainly feel in writing the politics column I looked to the horizon and gone thank God for the labor leadership election |
| 0:59.2 | Because we'll talk a little bit later on about the reasons why the government is kind of |
| 1:03.9 | doing this kind of you know the lights are on but nothing is nothing is |
| 1:06.8 | there because I think it's interesting but let's first start by doing sort of |
| 1:10.4 | update on the state of the labor leadership race. |
| 1:14.0 | Shall we talk about the National Union of Mind Workers? |
| 1:16.0 | Because if I usually said that on this podcast, you know, you would... |
| 1:19.0 | Yeah, you would get out your Shepherds Crook and like, you know, yank me off stage, but this week of all weeks, it's actually a really important moment in the week. |
| 1:28.0 | Yeah, so why are the National Union of Mindworkers an important moment in the week? |
| 1:32.0 | I'm really, they're an important moment in every week I have, but this week in particular they have |
| 1:36.8 | nominated Lisa Nandy for the Labour leadership. |
| 1:39.5 | Kew an avalanche of tweets as Lisa Nandy's campaign briefed this out exclusive into the Yorkshire |
| 1:44.4 | post that, oh it's a small but symbolic endorsement that says so much about how Lisa Nandi represents |
| 1:50.3 | the industrialized community wrong. Under the new rules, a union affiliated |
| 1:55.6 | Labour Party of which they are 13, some of them small. |
| 1:58.3 | The NUM, don't quote me on this, but I imagine must be probably the |
| 2:01.7 | smallest with 730 active members. |
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