NS#278: The Tory Psychodrama
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🗓️ 12 July 2018
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Helen and Stephen discuss the ongoing resignations and battles in the Tory party over Brexit, and then Stephen is joined by NS political correspondent Patrick Maguire to test out some Labour Party counterfactuals (warning: includes Liz Kendall content).
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| 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. |
| 1:03.9 | Listen to eight years hard labour wherever you get your podcasts. Hello I'm Helen and I'm Stephen and on this week's new statesman podcast we talk about resignations and Patrick McGuire joins us in the new statesman |
| 1:08.0 | podcast Broome Cupboard. So Stephen, where were you when you heard about Bed Brancher and Maria Colfield's |
| 1:18.4 | resignations? |
| 1:19.4 | When I heard about Ben Bradley. |
| 1:21.4 | Oh, cool! |
| 1:22.4 | Oh no! I mean to me to be honest if Ben Bradshaw resigned I think that actually would be a story. |
| 1:26.7 | So I was at my desk in Westminster which obviously I share with with Patrick and labelist |
| 1:33.7 | Siena Rogers. |
| 1:34.9 | We all looked at each other and no actually we looked at each other |
| 1:38.5 | and went back to talking about the forthcoming game |
| 1:41.1 | between France and Croatia. |
| 1:43.1 | So just in case our listeners haven't been hooked by the later stages of the Tory psychodrama, obviously we had |
| 1:48.0 | David Davis's resignation on late on Sunday night, then we have Boris Johnson's on Monday, |
| 1:52.4 | Theresa May made a statement. Then another guy... Then, Chris Green who was a PPS at transport. |
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