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The New Statesman | UK politics and culture

NS#213: Manifestos Special

The New Statesman | UK politics and culture

The New Statesman

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4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2017

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to 2017's epic, Manifesto Special edition of the podcast. Helen and Stephen begin with analysis of the Conservative's latest offerings - from the new policy on social care, to their (costly) targets on immigration. Next up is Labour, who get "Marx out of ten" for their ambitious pledges. And finally, You Ask Us: are the polls right?

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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

Picture this. Static cars, idling engines, angry horns.

0:27.0

Now, picture you, zooming past it all, light and breezy.

0:35.0

Ah, the sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic.

0:40.0

Book your train journey via Avanti westcoast.co. UK.

0:45.0

avante west coast feel good travel. Hi, I'm Stephen, and I'm Helen. and on this week's new station podcast

1:03.4

we talk about manifestos everything you could possibly want to know about what is in them and if you

1:08.0

enjoy that make sure to check out deep dive which is a sister podcast of us

1:12.2

run by Lord Wood Stuart Wood and Ian Leslie.

1:15.0

And that has now got its own spin-off section.

1:17.0

You might have heard clips of it on our podcast before, but please do go to iTunes

1:21.0

and search for deep dive and then you can hear some really great in-depth

1:23.8

discussions of terrorism, of media bias and other subjects that you know are just

1:28.3

too big for us to cover in proper depth on our podcast.

1:31.0

And while you're on iTunes, make sure to leave us a review unless it's a bad review. We don't want one of those.

1:35.0

Exactly. Leave only nice reviews that say nice things about how good my You Ask Us jingle is and how much you like that and Stephen is a big party

1:42.8

pooper for saying that it's embarrassing and cheesy.

1:46.5

And now on your super balanced New Statesman podcast, let's talk about the Tory manifesto.

1:57.0

Mmm.

1:58.0

What is it, it's forward...

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