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Listen to eight years hard labour wherever you get your podcasts. Hello I'm Stephen and welcome to the New Statesman podcast where this week we'll be focusing on what happens now for the Tories who are the DUP what do they want

and has the reshuffles shored up Theresa's authority.

Let's have the schadenfreude selection first shall we Stephen how are things going for um Teresa

Theresa May? Pretty badly actually. Sorry.

You bet you basically started laughing on Sky News yesterday right when you found that

Michael Gove had gone back into the cabin.

It was it was when I was asked the question did you expect expect this and why have she done it?

Because of course the answer is, well yes, of course, assuming, and she will manage to do some

kind of deal with the unionist party, so not in the DUP,, but Sylvia Herman, usually anti-conservative, but for obvious historical reasons, not a fan of the current labor leadership.

Another Lady Sylvia Herman is basically a party by herself at this point.

She's become a kind of... I have to say she's not one of the characters in this drama that I know a great deal about,

but she's suddenly become incredibly important.

Well she basically split off from the UPP when they did a deal with the Conservatives because she's not a Conservative.

But that was in an era when the Labour Party was led by people who had spent a lot of time working with unionists for a long period of time

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