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The New Statesman | UK politics and culture

NS#162: Reshuffle Special

The New Statesman | UK politics and culture

The New Statesman

News & Politics, Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2016

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Emergency Politics Podcast! Stephen Bush is joined by NS deputy web-editor, Anoosh Chakelian, and Staggers editor, Julia Rampen, to discuss Theresa May's new cabinet appointments, pick their least favourite members, and speculate on what the changes might mean for Britain. (Stephen Bush, Anoosh Chakelian, Julia Rampen)

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Some shows may have ads. Hello I'm Stephen and I am not joined by Helen for the latest emergency podcast because she is the first

0:56.1

casualty of our own reshuffle but I am joined by Anusha Kaleen, our Deputy Web Editor.

1:02.6

Hello.

1:03.6

And Julia Rampan, our new-ish staggers editor.

1:06.6

Hello.

1:08.5

So Anush, there were an awful lot of changes.

1:11.9

It was a fairly wide ranging, well not reshuffle, because it was a fairly wide ranging will not reshuffle

1:14.6

because it's a new government shuffle I guess. Yeah the probably the biggest thing

1:19.8

that everyone was focusing on was the appointment of Boris Johnson as Foreign Secretary.

1:25.7

It was considered quite an unexpected move from Theresa May, but also quite a brave move, as in the

1:30.8

piece that you wrote shortly after the appointment.

1:34.0

Everyone thought that the prevailing consensus was that it was going to be

1:38.0

disastrous considering he's gaff prone and he's a divisive figure but actually you you wrote that it was a

1:46.2

smart move by Theresa May because she would be able to neutralize the threat from him and

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