The Edition: Nightmare on Downing St

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🗓️ 5 December 2019

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Summary

With just a week to go until polling day, we take a look at what Corbyn’s Britain would look like (00:45). Plus, is planting more trees the panacea to climate change (16:15)? And last, how young is too young to have political opinions (28:15)?

With Liam Halligan, Michael Jacobs, Jamie Blackett, Will Skeaping, Andrew Watts, Freddy Gray, Gus Gray and Mary Wakefield.

Presented by Cindy Yu and Katy Balls.

Produced by Cindy Yu, Matt Taylor and Gus Carter.

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0:19.4	Hello and welcome to The Edition, the Spectator's weekly podcast discussing some of the most important and intriguing issues within our pages each week with the writers behind them.
0:30.0	I'm Cindy Yu. With just a week to go into a polling day, we take a look at what Corbyn's Britain would look like.
0:36.8	Plus, is planting more trees the panacea to climate change?
0:40.5	And last, how young is too young to have political opinions?
0:45.1	First, though the Tories are consistently and comfortably leading in the polls,
0:49.6	nothing can be taken for granted in politics if recent years are anything to go by.
0:55.2	So what would happen if Corbyn really does get into number 10? In this week's cover piece, Economist and Telegraph
1:00.1	columnist, Liam Halligan breaks down the consequences of Corbyn's domestic agenda. He speaks to Katie
1:06.3	Balls and Michael Jacobs, Professor of Political Economy at Sheffield University and former advisor to Gordon Brown.
1:13.2	Liam, in this week's spectator cover piece, you write about what you say would be the nightmare in Downing Street.
1:19.5	Should there be a Labour majority or actually even minority government come Friday the 13th?
1:26.2	Can you explain to listeners what you believe would be so
1:28.7	nightmarish about this situation? Well, there are two things. Firstly, there'd be the stasis of a
1:34.3	hung parliament. I think the country's sick and tired of nothing happening. A lot of
1:38.8	remain voters are sick and tired of nothing happening, as well as many leave voters. So Brexit would once again be in doubt.
1:46.2	I think that would really do a lot to undermine the UK's reputation as a place of competent
1:53.4	governance and relative political stability.
1:57.7	But on top of that, even though there's lots of ideas that the Labour Party put forward
2:03.0	that I do think are worth considering, I think the scope and the scale of Labour's tax
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