So Long-Bailey

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🗓️ 25 June 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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On today's New Statesman Podcast, with Stephen Bush having to shoot off seconds before recording in order to cover Rebecca Long-Bailey's sacking, Anoosh Chakelian and Ailbhe Rea are left to look at the fallout and how Robert Jenrick has avoided the same fate on the Conservative benches. Then, in You Ask Us, they take your question on Boris Johnson's struggles with party management.

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1:14.2	sacking, the Robert Genrich affair, and you ask us, why are Boris and co so
1:19.3	bad at party management? management.
1:31.0	So as we record the New Statesman podcast today, Thursday afternoon, we have just heard the news that Becky Long Bailey, the Shadow Education
1:35.7	Secretary, has been sacked from the front bench. So unfortunately for Stephen Bush lovers
1:40.8	out there, he has had to jump off the podcast to go and cover that breaking news
1:45.4	But luckily I have Alva with me to explain what on earth's going on so Alva what is behind this
1:51.4	Yeah, so Rebecca Long Long Bailey earlier this morning shared an interview
1:56.4	the actress Maxine Peek who's a sort of long-standing Corbonista an interview with the independent in which Maxine Peak
2:05.7	basically repeated an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that the the policeman who I don't even know whether it's appropriate to repeat a theory like this but just for people's information basically saying that the the policeman who had killed George Floyd in Minnesota was using a technique that the American
2:25.7	police are trained in by the Israeli army. Right, okay. Rebecca Long Bailey shared
2:31.4	the piece and with a comment saying something like, oh, I mean I'm paraphrasing, but something like, oh, Maxine Peak is a gem.
2:38.0	And then there's sort of been people just sort of discussion.
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