Open To Debate
The New Statesman | UK politics and culture
The New Statesman
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2019
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode of the New Statesman Podcast, Stephen Bush and Anoosh Chakelian are giving their verdicts on last night's first leaders debate. Then, Anoosh reports back from East Devon and, in You Ask Us, they tackle your questions on why electoral pacts fall apart.
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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. |
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| 0:20.0 | Hi everyone it's Anouche here. Westminster reimagined is back with season 4. |
| 0:24.1 | In this series co-hosted by the filmmaker and director Armando Iannucci, |
| 0:28.4 | we look at how politics has gone wrong and how it could work better. |
| 0:31.7 | If only there was some nearby trading block that we could somehow be part of. |
| 0:38.0 | We'll be taking you out of the studio to find out what young voters want. |
| 0:42.0 | Currently in Parliament it feels that we're going backwards. |
| 0:44.0 | They need to flip the status quo so that politics starts progressing. |
| 0:47.6 | Whether democracy is under threat. |
| 0:49.6 | Society needs to say we've had enough and we've got to start making demands. And we ask why don't |
| 0:54.4 | politicians care about happiness? All of politics has now been reduced to |
| 0:58.4 | you know a balance sheet. They don't understand that arts and culture really |
| 1:02.0 | are what defines people's happiness ultimately. |
| 1:04.1 | Join us each Monday to hear the latest episode of Westminster Reimagined on the new statesman |
| 1:08.7 | podcast or if you want to hear previous episodes you can find them all on their own feed. Just search Westminster |
| 1:14.5 | reimagined on your podcast app. If you're patriot you want your country to be |
| 1:18.5 | the best it can be, which means being honest about where things aren't working. Hi I'm Stephen and I'm Anush on this week's news station from podcast we discuss |
| 1:40.9 | the leaders debates a newse reports from her trip to East Devon. |
| 1:44.0 | And you ask us, why can't labour and the Lib Dems just do a pact? |
| 1:51.0 | So Anouche, we had the first televised debate, one-on-one debate between Jeremy Corbyn, |
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