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welcome to the New Statesman podcast I'm deputy editor Helen Lewis and this week I'll be talking to

Stephen Bush and Anushicalion about the end of term and the start of the campaign

and Ashley Calvin and I will be talking about benefit sanctions and what's gone wrong at the

DWP.

But first, it's the end of an era really, and the end of terms, certainly, Parliament is now

pro-road and the campaign is now officially in full swing. I'm joined by Stephen Bush, our Staggers editor,

and our deputy web editor in New Shecalian to look back fondly or maybe not that

fondly at a very eventful parliament.

First of all Stephen, it was a very exciting in the small frame of reference that this thing applies PMQs this week. What happened?

So Labour have been making some hay with George Osborne's refusal to rule out of the AT

rise and they wanted to continue this in the last PMQs

so they could kind of launch that out and have that going on as we launched into the campaign proper.

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