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The New Statesman | UK politics and culture

NS#277: Emergency Podcast: Cabinet Resignations

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🗓️ 9 July 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Helen and Stephen react to the resignations of David Davis and Boris Johnson (and who knows who else by the time you listen to this), and analyse what the upheaval in the Cabinet means for Theresa May's tenure as prime minister and the chances of a Brexit deal with the EU27.

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0:00.0

This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats.

0:11.0

So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's.

0:15.0

Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app.

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.

1:05.2

Listen to eight years hard labour wherever you get your podcasts. Hello and welcome to the emergency intro to the emergency news states and podcast Stephen and I sat down the balmy heady days of this

1:09.2

morning when only David Davis had resigned however it's now half past three.

1:14.0

Boris Johnson, the Foreign Secretary has now also resigned,

1:16.8

which kind of ups the panic level from like,

1:18.7

wow, wow, to like, wow, wow, and as a result, I'm making Stephen write a blog, so I'm alone here in the podcast.

1:25.0

It's not catacoom anymore, really. It's more of a podcast broom cupboard.

1:30.0

Anyway, please enjoy the below, but do be aware that we now have two, that's count them two

1:36.0

resignations. And let's be honest, this might be like a series of Russian dolls. This might be the

1:39.7

second or third intro after all the other people who resigned later this afternoon but for the moment

1:44.0

this is your special New Statesman emergency podcast.

1:56.4

Hello and welcome to an emergency news station podcast Stephen this is very exciting it is I love the smell of a cabinet resignation in extremely late evening yeah

2:01.2

I mean I was actually I was about to do this thing or I pretended that I was not

2:05.6

thrilled about the fact that this had happened at 11 o'clock, but actually like...

2:09.0

Just leaning.

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