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🗓️ 24 September 2015
⏱️ 37 minutes
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0:44.8 | zero carbon generation at edf energy.com slash helping Britain. Welcome to the New Statesman podcast. I'm Deputy Editor Helen Lewis and this week I chat to George Eaton and Stephen Bush about Labour Conference and what we hope to see in Jeremy Corbyn's speech. Then we chat a little bit about Labour's class of 2015. |
1:13.0 | After that, John Elage Barbara Speed and I discuss whether or not it's time to start caring about |
1:16.9 | the US election in 2016. Labor MPs are about to decamp to Brighton for their annual conference, the Lib Dem conference in Bournemouth, I think it's fair to say, was not a headline grabber. |
1:37.0 | But I'm joined by George Eaton and Stephen Bush to discuss Labour. |
1:40.0 | First of all, I'm going to kick off with you George because you had an interview with |
1:43.0 | Jeremy Corbyn all hail this week in which he talked a bit about a kind of |
1:47.6 | differing approach he's taking on different policy questions so on things like |
1:50.7 | Trident for example he said he's you know happy to leave it to you know the |
1:54.0 | will of activists and how they vote a conference on the benefit cap however he's decided |
1:58.9 | that his word is is law. Do you expect that the conference is going to be a more decision-making body than it has been previously this year? |
2:08.0 | Absolutely. So throughout his campaign, Jeremy Corbyn talks about how he wanted to democratise the Labour Party's policymaking |
2:14.9 | structures so that motions passed the conference would actually mean something again. |
2:19.6 | And in the past previous Labour leaders have disregarded them. |
2:25.0 | And that means some sort of big flash points. |
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