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🗓️ 19 November 2015
⏱️ 24 minutes
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0:00.0 | This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats. |
0:11.0 | So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's. |
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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 talked to George Eaton and a new Shecalian about a bad week for labour and how many of Jeremy Corbyn's gaffs ever reached the ears of voters. |
1:11.6 | Then Barbara Speed and John Elage joined me to talk about how cities can save the world. It has been another bad week for labour, I think it's fair to say. I'm joined by a political |
1:25.2 | editor George Eaton and a new Shaqualean deputy web editor to talk a little bit about some of the |
1:29.6 | gaffs that we've had this week and whether or not they they really matter I think |
1:33.4 | George I want to start with you first because you've been following in your column this |
1:37.1 | week you've written a little bit about it just is this okay so I think the |
1:41.0 | big question that everyone always says is, |
1:42.8 | it's all just you in the evil mainstream media picking on every little thing he does |
1:47.2 | trying to bring him down. Is that, is there any truth in that criticism? |
1:50.8 | There's certainly some truth in it, but there's quite a lot of truth in it and there's quite a lot of truth in it and |
1:55.2 | you know Jeremy Corbyn does face a media that believes he will fail and is determined to |
2:02.0 | ensure that he does. The other problem for him is that he's so divided from his MPs, particularly on issues of foreign and defence policies. So Corbyn allies rightly point out that on lot of MPs who are pleased that they're now officially an anti-o austerity party. |
2:24.5 | But on foreign and security policy, when Jeremy Corbyn said he wouldn't press the nuclear |
2:29.9 | button, he'd like to, he obviously wants to scrap Trident he said he couldn't see any |
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