NS#146: Counts, candidates and Captain America

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🗓️ 5 May 2016

⏱️ 49 minutes

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This week, the NS podcast comes to you on the day the country heads to the polls. Helen and Stephen are joined by acting Staggers editor, Henry Zeffman, to discuss their predictions for the election and its fall-out. They also pick teams in the week’s other political showdown: Captain America’s superhero civil war. George Eaton explores the atmosphere in Westminster. And you ask us: when will the results be in? (Helen Lewis, Stephen Bush, Henry Zeffman, George Eaton)

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0:37.0	Some shows may have ads. I'm Helen and I'm Stephen and this is the new statesman podcast. Well, it is mere hours until voting
0:55.5	opens in a variety of elections across England, Wales, Northern Ireland,
1:00.3	Scotland and the Police and Crime Commissioner election Stephen.
1:03.2	Yeah, I'm excited about all of them.
1:05.0	This is actually the first time outside of a referendum or a general election year
1:08.8	than everyone in the United Kingdom is voting in some elections since 1968.
1:13.0	Top Party Chat.
1:15.0	Yeah.
1:16.0	To provide more of such top party chat, Henry Zephin, our acting staggers editor joins us as well.
1:20.0	I'm going to start actually Henry by asking a bit about PMQs, which I missed. Was it illuminating?
1:26.0	No, maybe it was profoundly unedifying. So it was interesting tactically in as much as David Cameron for the first time in some years
1:38.0	really switched it from questions to the Prime Minister to questions to the leader of the opposition.
1:43.4	So he used a sort of contrived question from a Tory Backbencher which linked local elections
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