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Daily Politics from the New Statesman

NS#188: France, faith and fighting talk

Daily Politics from the New Statesman

The New Statesman

News & Politics, Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2016

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

This week, Helen and Stephen discuss French politics: who are the viable candidates for president and what would a Marine Le Pen victory mean for Europe? Also up for debate is Keir Starmer's speech, how Labour should best take on the Tories, and our hosts' own experiences of a vicarage Christmas. And finally, you ask us: Why is Theresa May determined to include students in her immigration targets? (Helen Lewis, Stephen Bush)

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zero carbon generation at edf energy.com slash helping Britain. Hello I'm Stephen and I'm Helen and welcome to the New States and podcast do we have to talk about Europe I'm afraid we do we will be talking about Europe until we die

1:10.9

Which thanks to Trump may be sooner than we'll think.

1:14.0

Tell me what's new and happening in Europe.

1:17.0

Actually we haven't talked about the French primaries.

1:20.0

We could talk about the French primary because it gives me a chance to show off my French accent which I think makes me sound debonair and sophisticated.

1:25.8

That's just the world because I know a lot about the politicians but I every time I pronounce one of their names I just scratch my nose and look awkward.

1:33.2

So Franz Ophillon, which I think is how it's pronounced,

1:36.6

Sarkozy's old Prime Minister, defeated not only his old boss as Prime Minister, but

1:42.4

his old boss when he was a minister and

1:44.0

you pay who was Prime Minister under

1:48.0

Chirac? Yes. And he is you know kind of is close to in French terms as you could get to a factorate,

1:56.8

although these comparisons are always unhelpful because French politics is,

2:01.0

it sort of kind of like when people want to compare things to US politics they

2:04.0

look similar they feel similar but there are lots of really important

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