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

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

Trains, now on Uber. T's Caroline Crampton standing in for your regular

host Helen Lewis. On this week's podcast I talked to George Eaton and Stephen Bush about the

labor leadership, labor's relationship with the economy and Tim Farron, And then John Elage and Barbara Speed talk about London's Tube Map.

And finally, Toosin Thompson and Anusha we're going to start off by talking about labor and the

economy an issue that gravely hampered them during the election and which

George has explored further in his column this week. Yes, so I start by reminding readers how when the Conservatives came to power in 2010, a lot of people

such as Mervyn King, the then governor of the Bank of England, predicted that they'd be out of power for a generation

due to the harsh austerity measures they'd have to impose.

And now, of course, it's the party that lost in 2010 that opposed accessible

austerity labour that is spoken of as potentially facing years in the electoral

wilderness and I think one of the reasons for this unexpected outcome is that Osborne so successfully

pinned the blame for the cuts on labour by presenting the cuts as a necessary corrective to years of

socialist profligacy and he was able to completely outplay them on that issue.

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