NS#131: Leadership, Legacy and the Latest in videogames

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🗓️ 14 January 2016

⏱️ 28 minutes

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This week, co-hosts Helen Lewis and Stephen Bush review the extended Labour reshuffle and discuss David Cameron’s legacy. We also hear from George Eaton, down-the-line from the lobby, on who might be the next Labour leader. And from Emad Ahmed on the videogames that are making us cry. (Helen Lewis, Stephen Bush, George Eaton, Emad Ahmed)

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0:45.0	Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. Welcome to the New Statesman podcast. I'm deputy editor Helen Lewis and this week with my co-host Stephen Bush we talk about the labor reshuffle part two and David Cameron's legacy.
1:10.0	George joins us on the line from Westminster to talk about who might be the next Labour leader.
1:15.0	And finally, Emel Armour joins us to talk about the games that restore our faith in video gaming. Hello I'm Stephen and I'm Helen and this is the new statesman podcast. Well it's been quite a quiet week for
1:34.0	politics I would say Stephen comparatively to reshuffle Geddon but nonetheless the
1:39.5	Labour Party still is not it's not entirely a happy ship is it there was another resignation this week yes
1:44.5	Catherine McKinnell stepped down as a shadow attorney general partly to spend more
1:52.4	time with her family but also she said because she was concerned
1:54.8	about the negative path that Labour was taking under Jeremy Corbyn. So that triggered
2:00.8	a philosophical argument about whether or not this was a continuation of the reshuffle or a new
2:04.8	reshuffle. George thought it was a new reshuffle, I thought it was an old reshuffle, I thought
2:11.0	it was a new reshuffle. An epilogue to the last reshuffle, isn't it? We did a little straw poll on the internet and it turns
2:16.4	out that I am in an extreme minority. I maintain that a resignation which starts another
2:21.7	reshuffle, well that's the beginning of the reshuffle.
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