Paternity and Testing
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🗓️ 1 May 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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In today's New Statesman Podcast, Stephen Bush, Anoosh Chakelian, Patrick Maguire and Ailbhe Rea are back to look at how Boris Johnson's first week back in No.10 has gone. Then, in You Ask Us, they tackle your question on how the smaller parties – particularly the Lib Dems – are faring during the crisis.
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| 1:11.8 | I'm Anusha Kelly and I'm joined by my colleagues Stephen Bush, Patrick McGuire and |
| 1:15.8 | Alveray to discuss Boris Johnson's first week back at work and what it means for |
| 1:19.6 | the lockdown and you ask us how are the opposition parties faring in this period? |
| 1:26.0 | So Boris Johnson is back in town which means that I've imbibed this meme that Boris Johnson |
| 1:34.8 | coming back means that lockdown can be it means that now instead of lockdown |
| 1:39.0 | being a kind of like will decide when the Prime Minister gets back is now sort of actively the |
| 1:44.4 | kind of text of British politics again I guess is that an accurate way of putting it? |
| 1:48.7 | Yeah I suppose now now that he's back and in a position to make decisions, there's not this sort of artificial barrier |
| 1:56.4 | to ministers sort of giving away a little bit more about how they're planning for the lockdown |
| 2:01.2 | to be eased or modified in some way because before it was sort of like an understandable limbo and every time they were asked the same question at all of their press conferences or Kistama brought it up or any of their own MPs brought it up then you know there was sort of a tacit |
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