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welcome to the New Statesman podcast. I'm deputy editor Helen Lewis

and this week I talk to George Eaton and Stephen Bush

about the Labour leadership race, the Labour deputy

leadership race and maybe even a Tory leadership race a little bit later down the line.

Then Barbara Speed, Anal Escovitz and Caroline Crampton talk about motherhood, comedy, and

why Orange is the New Black isn't as smug as you think from reading internet

think pieces about it.

The Labour leadership and deputy leadership races are now in full swing,

so I'm going to turn to our staggers editor Stephen Bush

and our politics editor George Eaton to catch up on the latest. George I'm

going to go to you first we've had the first labor leadership hustings in

nun-eaten which was the swing seat that that when it went Tory we really knew on the night

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