NS#172: Swing votes, schools and Snowden

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🗓️ 15 September 2016

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Helen is back and set to discuss grammar schools, electoral pacts and why Stephen is particularly upset about boundary change. George joins with the reaction to Corbyn’s PMQ performance. NS tech editor, Kirsty Styles, explores whether whistleblowers can maintain their credibility - and how far big data is to be welcomed. And you ask us: can Trump win and how? (Helen Lewis, Stephen Bush, George Eaton, Kirsty Styles)

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1:07.5	all-stars as I like to think about it.
1:09.5	It's a full roster.
1:10.5	How did you keep it warm for me while I was away? Yeah, we yeah people liked it some listeners didn't want you to come back
1:16.3	Wow well screw them because I'm here and I've got a lot of thoughts about labour
1:21.9	We've got loans to get through.
1:23.7	Shall we start with boundary changes because that is the kind of wancery for which I think
1:28.4	there is an appetite. So the Boundary Commission has come back with its review to reduce the number of seats from 650 to 600.
1:36.0	There's inevitably been a row about the ones that have been redrawn.
1:42.0	So George Osborne's seat is gone.
1:43.8	Yeah, George Osborne's seat of Tatton.
1:46.2	Jez we can is now Jez, we are homeless.
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