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🗓️ 11 January 2018
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Helen and Stephen dissect Theresa May's reshuffle and wonder what on earth the PM was thinking, getting rid of Justine Greening. Then Helen interviews the playwright David Eldridge about his upcoming play Beginning and theatre's problems with diversity and access. Finally, they tackle a big and serious question: how do we fix the NHS crisis?
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Further reading:
Stephen on Theresa May's tactical reshuffle.
More details about David Eldridge's Beginning, at the Ambassadors Theatre in London from 15 January.
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0:20.0 | I'm David Arullovich. 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. |
1:04.8 | Listen to eight years hard labour wherever you get your podcasts. Hello I'm Stephen and I'm Helen and on this week's news station and podcast we talk about the reshuffle whoa who we talk about the NHS crisis and |
1:09.3 | I'm few playwright David Eldridge whose new beginning, starts in the West End soon. |
1:13.0 | So let's talk about the reshuffle, Stephen. I'm struggling really to pull the headlines out of it because it sort of feels that you know Boris Johnson stayed in place, Amber Rudd stayed in place, Philip Hammond stayed in place. The highest highlight if you will is that |
1:35.0 | Justin Greening got hoofed out of education after refusing a move to the DWP quite |
1:39.4 | sensibly. She's got a seat in London in Putney with a very small majority and why would you push |
1:44.6 | through another incredibly unpopular flagship reform? |
1:47.5 | David Liddington, formally at Justice, is kind of now taken on some of the Damien Green roles in terms of first Secretary of State. |
1:54.0 | He will also deputise for Theresa May at PMQs. |
1:57.0 | And is replaced by David Gawk. |
1:59.0 | Who is, no one hates David Gawk. |
2:02.0 | And is also like crucially you know a lawyer people |
2:04.7 | are quite excited about that the first lawyer in a little over five years to hold |
2:08.8 | the post one of the things which I think is a suboptimal about the various conservative |
2:14.2 | led governments since 2010 is the lack of importance that they have given to that |
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