Spring Leaks
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🗓️ 14 April 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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On this week's New Statesman Podcast, Patrick Maguire, Anoosh Chakelian, Ailbhe Rea and Stephen Bush discuss the leak of a Labour party report and what it could mean for the nascent Starmer leadership. Then, in You Ask Us, the team recommend the books, games and activities that have been getting them through lockdown, from babyfoot to Vile Bodies.
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| 1:13.4 | my colleagues Stephen Bush, Anuscheke-Ekelion, and Alva Ray to discuss what does |
| 1:17.8 | elite report into factualism at a Labour Party HQ mean for Kia Starmer and |
| 1:21.5 | you ask us what we're reading and what we're not during lockdown. |
| 1:29.1 | So one of the big stories over the bank holiday weekend was a leaked internal |
| 1:36.5 | Labour Party report that claims factionalism in the party machine hindered Jeremy |
| 1:41.9 | Corbyn and that leadership's ability to tackle anti-Semitism at the party and also tried to obstruct the party's electoral performance in 2017. |
| 1:50.0 | Now this is an 860 page document and while it's been confirmed that it is a genuine draft document |
| 1:56.7 | it's unclear who actually commissioned it, who it was written by, what it was for. |
| 2:00.7 | Sky reported that party lawyers have said that they wouldn't be submitting it to the |
| 2:04.8 | Equality and Human Rights Commission which is of course investigating anti-Semitism in the |
| 2:09.2 | Labour Party at the moment but we don't even know if it was for that purpose either. So what were your first |
| 2:15.2 | thoughts when you had sight of the report in the journalistic parlance? Stephen. |
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