NS#279: The Brexit Curse
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🗓️ 18 July 2018
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Helen and Stephen discuss the news that the Vote Leave campaign has been found to have broken electoral law and explore whether Theresa May can face a no confidence vote while Parliament is on summer recess. They they're joined by Helen Thompson, Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge University and a regular on the Talking Politics podcast, to discuss how Brexit is affecting other leaders around Europe. Finally, they answer a listener question about the Labour party's adoption of the IHRA definition of anti-semitism.
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| 0:45.0 | avante west coast feel good travel Hello I'm Helen and I'm Stephen and welcome to the New Statesman |
| 1:04.8 | podcast this week we discuss Brexit of course we discuss Brexit but we talk about |
| 1:09.8 | the votes in the House of Commons this week. We talk about what deal the EU27 |
| 1:13.6 | might accept and Helen Thompson in Cambridge University joins us to look |
| 1:16.6 | about all the other European leaders and what they're thinking. |
| 1:19.2 | Stephen, do we have to talk about the bad running of the Brexit referendum? |
| 1:27.0 | Yes, I think we should talk about the conduct of the referendum campaign, |
| 1:31.0 | essentially minutes before we sat down here in the podcast, Katakum, vote leave has been |
| 1:35.9 | censured by the Electoral Commission. |
| 1:37.7 | So it's been fine, what, about 60,000 pounds, is roughly? |
| 1:40.3 | Yeah, so they've been given the highest possible fine in both sort of categories and Darren Grimes of Believe, |
| 1:47.0 | which has been found to not effectively be a separate campaign, but an adjunct of Vote Leave has been referred to the police as has |
| 1:54.8 | and they over spent by half a million yeah as has the designated hitter of so |
| 1:59.8 | essentially of vote leave itself yeah when you when you have a any of campaign, you have an agent, which is basically they are |
| 2:06.3 | legally liable for if you break the law. |
| 2:09.1 | I got to say, okay actually now I was thinking there was a wild, I was about to say something wildly libless. |
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