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NS#145: Anti-Semitism, suspensions and Sadiq

The New Statesman | UK politics and culture

The New Statesman

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🗓️ 28 April 2016

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

This week, Helen Lewis and Stephen Bush are joined by Henry Zeffman, our acting Staggers editor, to discuss Labour's anti-Semitism controversy. George Eaton takes the temperature within Westminster. And Anoosh Chakelian questions Zac Goldsmith’s campaign against fellow mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan. You also ask us: is TTIP a reason to vote leave in the EU referendum? (Helen Lewis, Stephen Bush, Henry Zeffman, George Eaton, Anoosh Chakelian)

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1:04.1

podcast well I think we have to deal with first of all the I guess we should

1:09.7

point say as we're recording this it's still breaking. Ken Livingston is still on TV,

1:14.0

so by the time we get out of the studio,

1:15.0

who knows what he will have said.

1:17.0

We're joined by our acting stagersed to Henry Zeffman

1:20.0

to talk about anti-Semitism and Labour and the left more generally.

1:23.7

Okay, so for those people who have kind of been in a bunker, Henry, let's do the timeline.

1:28.1

Where does it, it begins on Tuesday?

1:30.8

Tuesday at...

1:32.4

Hang a minute, you're not here.

1:33.0

Well, no, no, no.

1:34.0

So it begins on Monday afternoon, which is I think when the Guido Fawkes website drew attention

1:40.0

to a series of antismitSemitic posts that Nas-Chin, the relatively newly elected MP for Bradford West,

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