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Daily Politics from the New Statesman

NS#205: Cadbury and Ken

Daily Politics from the New Statesman

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🗓️ 28 July 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Helen and Stephen discuss what the week's two wars - with Spain and Cadburys - reveal about the political identities behind Brexit. Stephen tells of his eggsclusive on Theresa May's egg-hunt beef. Plus, what should we make of the Ken Livingtstone verdict? And what does Helen think of Labour's media operation?

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0:00.0

Hello, I'm Stephen. And I'm Helen. And on this week's New Statement podcast, eggs, glorious

0:13.2

Easter eggs, and white reason, they were very right to comment on them. And the necessity

0:18.2

of a war against those awful Spaniards. Maybe with eggs, maybe we could throw eggs

0:22.2

at them, but rolling all our new stories into one. And unfortunately we are going to talk

0:26.4

about Ken Livingston and what has happened with the allegations of anti-Semitism against him.

0:30.4

Plus, you and I ask Helen about her experience as a very, very old media platform.

0:38.0

Right. Why don't you neck it?

0:47.1

War! What is it good for?

0:50.0

Well, it's good for front pages. I think that's what we've learned. I'm really

0:53.2

up for the idea. What do you think our budget is the largest object we could beam something

0:57.8

onto? A war maybe? I just feel like, do you know what we should do something symbolically

1:04.7

liberal? Like we should beam a giver off that speech onto a small war.

1:10.4

Yeah, I mean, to be honest, with the NS's budget, we are really are talking about, you know,

1:14.0

offence and picket fence. But are those laser pointers that they banned from secondary school

1:19.0

because the people were blinding other kids with them? But yeah, so war.

1:24.5

Well, you've been quite down on the idea. I mean, I, okay. Of war, yeah.

1:28.1

That's, that's, let me rephrase that. Obviously, I'm not pro-war with Spain over Gibraltar.

1:32.4

Although, I think someone pointed out on Twitter, it is going all quite judo quite quickly.

1:36.7

The main thing I'm worried about is the idea that actually we don't have any ships

1:40.3

with which to prosecute this war. So what we're really talking about is a land war with Spain,

1:44.4

which seems to be of an escalation when we only triggered Article 50 last week.

1:47.6

Yeah. So, so basically what happened was, in case you've missed this slightly bizarre story, is

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