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🗓️ 5 November 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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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. |
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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 talk to Stephen Bush and George Eaton about Trident renewal and the People's PMQs. |
1:08.8 | Then Stephen joins us again, plus Barbara Speed, to talk about his dark materials and what our demons would be. |
1:26.1 | The issue of Trident the UK's nuclear deterrent has come back onto the agenda with a potential split between Jeremy Corbyn, who is very anti-nuclear and his party, who |
1:30.1 | are pro for very different reasons. I'm going to talk to Stephen, our Stegers editor, |
1:35.3 | and George, our politics editor, who have both written about this for the magazine this week. |
1:39.2 | George, I'm going to start with you. |
1:40.8 | Corbin has been a lifelong unilateralist and although he's made compromises on things |
1:46.4 | like NATO membership there's no sign that this is something that he's |
1:50.5 | he will compromise on is there? |
1:52.4 | Absolutely so he feels like he has a mandate from the members for this position. |
1:57.0 | He's never disguised to support for unilateral disarmament, |
2:01.2 | but of course that puts him at odds with a lot of labor MPs and with significantly most of his Shadow Cabinet. |
2:08.0 | So I think apart from Corbyn there are only four other confirmed Un unilateralists in the Shadow Cabinet. |
2:15.0 | And crucially, the vote on renewal is going to be held by next March at the latest. |
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