The Neverending Brexit Story
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🗓️ 25 October 2018
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Helen and Stephen discuss the ongoing trials and tribulations of Tory Brexiteers. Then, they're joined by Labour MP and Shadow Treasury Minister Jonathan Reynolds to discuss the upcoming budget. Finally, Jonn Elledge pops in to answer a listener question: is Doctor Who best when it is just trying to be a children's programme?
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| 1:33.2 | Hello I'm Helen and I'm Stephen and welcome to the new statesman podcast this week we discuss how the Tory party has apparently gone mad over a leadership battle |
| 1:50.1 | we go mad over the new Doctor Who and And we interview Johnny Reynolds from Labor's Finance Front Bench about the Budget. |
| 1:56.0 | Stephen, do we have to talk about Brexit? Yes, we will have to talk about Brexit for |
| 2:08.0 | the rest of our natural lives. I mean you did predict this in 2016 to be fair to you, so I think if anyone deserves any credit out of this mess it should be you like this is our national project for the next 10 years how we laughed in early 2016. |
| 2:19.2 | It's odd because the thing I yeah kind of yeah, obviously every year I do an |
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