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The New Statesman: politics and culture

NS#166: High noon in the High Court

The New Statesman: politics and culture

The New Statesman

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4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2016

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

It's another emergency podcast! Helen and Stephen discuss the High Court's decision to overturn the ban on new Labour members voting in the leadership election. Will this help or harm Jeremy Corbyn?

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0:00.0

This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats.

0:11.0

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0:15.0

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0:20.0

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0:27.0

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0:31.0

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

0:44.8

zero carbon generation at edf energy.com slash helping Britain. Hello I'm Stephen and I'm Helen and welcome to another emergency news

1:05.4

statesman podcast. Wow wow well the occasion of our emergency podcast is not just

1:10.2

the fact that you've returned from a week's holiday and therefore we've got quite a lot

1:12.8

chat to catch up on. But also a really interesting ruling in a court case of one of the many

1:18.0

interminable court cases related to the Labour leadership election. Recap it for me.

1:22.1

The NEC had voted to reinstate the freeze date and it had had pre-2007 when they decided

1:29.8

to abandon six-month freeze date for the then deputy leadership election and this is the

1:35.0

same free state they have for parliamentary selections, council selections etc for the

1:39.8

Labour leadership race. So classically for the first six months after you join you can't vote

1:43.4

in internal relations and the thrust of the judges verdict is the way that

1:49.7

Labour have marketed membership is based on the idea that you can vote in the leadership election.

1:54.5

Well the website did say join the Labour Party now and get blah blah blah

1:57.3

and voting our leadership elections.

1:59.3

So that has been overturned.

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