Strange Bedfellows Abound
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🗓️ 4 April 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
On this week's New Statesman Podcast, Stephen Bush is joined by Patrick Maguire and Eleni Courea to discuss the May/Corbyn talks and all the latest rounds of voting. And then, in You Ask Us, it's another unlikely union under the microscope: the Lib Dems and Change UK (aka TIG).
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| 1:14.0 | Search AON Global Catastrophe Recap to get started. Hi, I'm Stephen. In this week's new states from the podcast, we look at all of the results of the votes, |
| 1:33.6 | what might happen with the May-Hawbin talks and you ask us how will TIG and the Lib Dems work together. Hello, it's just me this week, not because Helen has been sent to a Goulag for defecting to the Atlantic, |
| 1:51.0 | but because of the late votes, we've elected to do one on one of the |
| 1:55.1 | day she's not here so I am joined by the full might of the NS Westminster team |
| 2:01.1 | and Patrick. Hello. Hi, yeah. So last night the House voted through a |
| 2:08.9 | bill to I'm considering going on to troll Patrick by saying stop no deal. |
| 2:13.6 | What I enjoy is occasionally in our room in the lobby someone will say it and |
| 2:17.8 | you do this whole body shudder whenever someone says it. |
| 2:21.9 | So this bill which would ask Theresa May to put forward a proposal... |
| 2:27.0 | To ask to defer no deal for a length of time of her choosing or if that can't win a majority, Parliament's choosing, |
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