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The New Statesman | UK politics and culture

NS#152: Polls, predictions and Morningside Pie

The New Statesman | UK politics and culture

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🗓️ 9 June 2016

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

This week, Helen and Stephen are joined by deputy web editor Anoosh Chakelian to talk about Europe: are the polls to be believed? Who is making the positive case for immigration? And will Stephen stick to his earlier referendum prediction? George Eaton joins from the Lobby. Then the tone lightens with a spin around the politics of musical theatre and a very special edition of You Ask Us (Helen Lewis, Stephen Bush, Anoosh Chakelian, George Eaton)

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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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0:38.3

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0:44.8

zero carbon generation at edf energy.com slash helping Britain. I'm Stephen and I'm Helen and welcome to the New Statesman podcast.

1:04.0

Stephen do we have to talk about Europe? I'm afraid we do.

1:07.0

But we have brought along a friend who will enliven this this dark time which is our deputy road to Anustrician.

1:15.0

Hello.

1:17.0

Right, so a couple of things have happened.

1:19.0

One, we've had the first set of televised debates, and two, the polls have moved in a fairly alarming direction for the

1:26.0

remain campaign. Well you say the first televised debates but so far no one's

1:29.4

actually debated anyone else right so they had Michael Gov was Gova was just Michael Gova and a studio audience.

1:35.6

And then I watched David Cameron and Nigel Farage do their sort of same format where they have questions

1:40.0

from the audience. What I thought about that, okay mostly, I didn't really tweet anything during

1:43.8

David Cameron's half, he went second, because it was kind of just dull, like he just played a very straight bat,

1:48.8

he was just very smooth and pink and unruffled.

1:53.3

Nigel Farage, you always have to filter it through the fact that I'm not

1:57.4

Nigel Farage's target audience.

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