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The New Statesman: politics and culture

NS#179: Brexit, Benn and by-elections

The New Statesman: politics and culture

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🗓️ 19 October 2016

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

This week, Helen and Stephen review the list of candidates for the select committee chair announcements, Helen worries that the language around Brexit is turning nasty and Stephen finds Football Manager knows more about Brexit than our politicians. Then our deputy web editor, Anoosh Chakelian, returns from a visit to Batley and Spen to discuss by-elections and what happens next for UKIP. (Helen Lewis, Stephen Bush, Anoosh Chakelian).

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0:00.0

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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

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0:34.9

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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. Hi I'm Helen and I'm Stephen and this is the New Statesman podcast and we're joined by our

1:05.4

deputy web web editor Anushicalian who is fresh from Batley and Spen which she'll be

1:10.2

talking out with us later but she's joining us for this section as well.

1:13.4

Hello.

1:14.4

What a treat for you?

1:15.4

Because we're going to talk about Brexit.

1:17.1

What else?

1:18.1

First of all, Stephen, I know that we're recording this just before the announcement of various

1:21.7

committee chairs, who doesn't love a select committee chair announcement.

1:25.4

Who doesn't indeed? I am I am actually this is quite an interesting set of ones because whatever happens it will tell us a couple of things.

1:34.0

One of the dogs which hasn't barked than people feared might happen when you elected select committee

1:38.3

chairs is that the government governing party would deliberately vote for bad candidates in order to get easy scrutiny.

1:50.0

Okay so that but that hasn't worked out so let's take the home affairs

1:53.1

select committee which I guess is the highest profile fight so I think everybody's seeing

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