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🗓️ 1 February 2018
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Helen and Stephen discuss the controversy surrounding Labour and the Haringey Development Vehicle (no wait, come back, it's really interesting). Then they answer a listener question: how does the Conservative no confidence process work?
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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. |
1:03.4 | Listen to eight years hard labour wherever you get your podcasts. Hi I'm Helen and And I'm Stephen. |
1:04.4 | And you're listening to the New Statesman podcast. |
1:06.3 | This week, we discuss the Harringay Development Vehicle, no wait, come back, it's really |
1:10.0 | interesting. |
1:11.0 | We discuss the Conservatives' lack of a a message and we talk about whether or not |
1:14.4 | Graham Brady and the 1922 committee would bring down Theresa May. |
1:20.0 | So this doesn't promise to be the most exciting topic but please bear with us because I think we can make it exciting can't we Stephen |
1:30.1 | if I'm going to say no promises if I say the words harring a development vehicle to you what do you say? |
1:37.4 | I admit a low grown. I took can you explain this because this is I think this is one of those things |
1:42.4 | that it has become a kind of emblematic row in the party and there are some things you need to know about it and then probably some things you don't. |
1:48.8 | But essentially it was a council proposal from a North London council about redeveloping land and bringing new housing, which has either been seen as, yes, there are some downsides to this, but this is the only way we're going to get new housing and upgrade some stuff versus this is a sort of |
2:04.0 | you know Tory light plot to kind of winkle out existing residents from their homes. |
2:08.8 | I mean that's just like caricature but that's what I got from it. |
2:11.6 | The objection people who have against it |
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