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The New Statesman | UK politics and culture

NS#133: Divisions, Dodgy-Deals and Dr Who

The New Statesman | UK politics and culture

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🗓️ 28 January 2016

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

This week, Helen Lewis and Stephen Bush talk Labour splits, George Eaton discusses Osborne’s Google tax blunder, and a new feature - ‘You Ask Us’ - sees our presenters place their bets on the next Labour Leader. Plus: CityMetric’s Jonn Elledge joins to debate the Dr Who showrunners. Want to know how the show reflects the Labour party? Listen in to find out... (Helen Lewis, Stephen Bush, George Eaton, Jonn Elledge)

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zero carbon generation at edf energy.com slash helping Britain. I'm Helen and I'm Stephen and this is the New States from podcast. First up this

1:05.4

week let us talk about labor and splits. The cover story in the magazine this

1:09.4

week is asking a very simple question should labor split and we've heard from Neil Kinnock Lord

1:14.4

Owen David Owen you've interviewed Bill Rogers another member of the gang of four well actually

1:18.0

let's make me start there Stephen because you put it in the context of the

1:21.4

Limhurst Declaration for those let's just imagine we're not all experts on the Limhese Declaration.

1:25.9

So 35 years ago this week, four former secretaries of state in the Wilson-Callahan labor government issued the Limeshouse Declaration

1:36.5

which they basically went the Labour Party as it currently exists is hated for

1:40.8

the wrecking yard we need a new force for social democratic politics and we're looking to,

1:46.7

we're going to work out how that will happen. And the end result of that was them setting up

1:51.5

the social democratic Party which took about a third

1:55.6

of labor activists, 10% of activists who were from the Tory Party who were disgruntled

2:01.0

by Margaret Thatcher and then the rest were new to politics and 30 who were

2:03.3

disgruntled by Margaret Thatcher and then the rest were new to politics and

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