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The New Statesman | UK politics and culture

NS#141: Students, lists and Duncan Smith

The New Statesman | UK politics and culture

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🗓️ 24 March 2016

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

This week, Stephen Bush and Anoosh Chakelian discuss post-budget ructions in the Tory party. George Eaton considers the fall-out from Labour’s leaked list. And our Anthony Howard scholar, Henry Zeffman, joins to discuss student politics and the climate of antisemitism. You also ask us: post-election, why did Labour not refer to the “small” conservative majority? (Stephen Bush, Anoosh Chakelian, George Eaton, Henry Zeffman)

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0:00.0

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0:16.5

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0:21.2

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At EDF, we're busy generating more British zero carbon

0:34.9

electricity than anyone to help keep future energy costs down for

0:38.3

everyone and help cut UK carbon emissions to nothing. Sound good to you? Find out more about our

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zero carbon generation at edf energy.com slash helping Britain. I'm Stephen and I'm a noose and as you will have noticed that is not.

0:57.0

I'm a noose and as you will have noticed that is not Helen Lewis

1:05.6

who's with me in our podcast catacoom this week Helen is away and so Anush Kaleen

1:12.4

our deputy web editor has stepped ably into her place in a big and exciting week in Westminster and beyond.

1:21.0

Ian Duncan Smith has resigned.

1:24.0

Ian Duncan Smith has resigned.

1:26.0

There's not a problem with the podcast.

1:27.0

I just wanted to say it twice.

1:29.0

And he's caused a sort of mini crisis in the Conservative Party hasn't he?

1:33.6

Yes, so it was massive shocking news on Friday night when all of a sudden the work

1:39.2

of pension secretary who somehow managed to hang on to his job in cabinet despite basically doing nothing

1:45.3

but all of the things that he has done being either extremely damaging to government finances

1:49.7

or to people's lives suddenly resigned and the reason for his resignation what he said

1:55.3

was that he just couldn't stay on in his job with any conscience and continue

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