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🗓️ 14 February 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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On this week's New Statesman Podcast, Stephen Bush and Anoosh Chakelian are joined by Ailbhe Rea and Patrick Maguire to look at Boris Johnson's reshuffle and the shock departures of Julian Smith and Sajid Javid. Then, in You Ask Us, they tackle your questions on what a Labour party led by Keir Starmer might look like.
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0:33.7 | And I'm Anush. |
0:34.5 | And on this week's New States and podcast, |
0:36.2 | we discuss the reshuffle. |
0:37.6 | You ask us. |
0:38.8 | Will the PLP unite under Kiea Starmer if he wins? |
0:42.0 | And that's all you're getting this week, folks. |
0:49.0 | So it was a, yeah, pretty minor reshuffle all in all. |
0:53.2 | Yeah, so as we're recording, not all of the various posts have been filled, but it feels to me pretty |
1:01.4 | safe to say that the two biggest things that have happened are the |
1:06.1 | exits which are well I go obviously exit one is Julian Smith Northern Ireland, and Exit 2 that really matters is Sadie David |
1:16.2 | resigning rather than having his spads become part of a kind of joint number 10, number 11 team, |
1:21.5 | which has been the kind of, well, so they've been one of the kind of |
1:24.8 | subplots of this re-shuffle has been a kind of like general shrinking down of the |
1:28.6 | number of special advisors the removal of ones you know a kind of of concentration, something they've planned for a long time, |
1:35.1 | which I realize I wrote about a couple weeks ago in the N.S political column is, you know, this idea |
1:38.8 | that they're going to have more, well the media spouts will be concentrated, yeah so thoughts I mean for the record we did |
1:45.8 | led out a sort of collective shriek when Patrick announced that Saj had resigned. |
1:50.6 | I just have to I should emphasize it wasn't my scoop I just spend a lot of time on |
1:54.0 | Twitter. He was right on it within seconds. Exactly. As with all the best tweets I see |
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