NS#250: Previously on British Politics. . .
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🗓️ 4 January 2018
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Helen and Stephen look back at everything they missed in politics over the Christmas break and make some predictions for the year ahead.
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| 0:00.0 | Attention at all passengers. You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in Uber credits to spend on your next train journey. |
| 0:11.0 | So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas. |
| 0:16.5 | Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply check the Uber app. I'm David |
| 0:20.8 | Aruhovich listen to my new series from Tortoise, Eight Years Hard Labour. |
| 0:25.9 | It tells the extraordinary story of the double revolution that engulfed the Labour Party after 2015, |
| 0:31.6 | from centre left to hard left and back again, the battles and |
| 0:35.7 | disasters that accompanied them and the two men who led those revolutions, |
| 0:39.7 | Jeremy Corbyn and Kiea. |
| 1:03.3 | Listen to eight years hard labour wherever you get your podcasts. Hello I'm Helen and I'm Stephen. And I'm Stephen. |
| 1:04.1 | And welcome to the New Statesman Podcast. |
| 1:06.0 | Previously on British politics. |
| 1:08.0 | That's what we're going to be talking about this week, everything we missed over the Christmas |
| 1:10.7 | break and our predictions for 2018. |
| 1:13.0 | It's time for a cabinet battle. |
| 1:20.0 | It's not time for cabinet battle Stephen sorry I led you astray there. |
| 1:25.6 | It's time however to talk about all the things that we missed over the Christmas break. |
| 1:28.6 | Let's not use words like all. I think it's just you a few a handful one or two why don't you tell the listeners |
| 1:36.1 | about what you did for Christmas what I did for Christmas yeah just give it that |
| 1:40.1 | kind of Instagram failed to the podcast so I went to my in-laws for Christmas, which was nice. It was, you know, it was good. I didn't have to... Do they listen to the podcast? They don't listen to the podcast. |
| 1:51.0 | So you can say anything you like about them? |
| 1:52.7 | I can. |
| 1:53.7 | Unfortunately, my in-laws aren't particularly good for her hashtag content. |
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