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The New Statesman Podcast: Episode Fifty-Four

The New Statesman | UK politics and culture

The New Statesman

News & Politics, Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2014

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

On this week's New Statesman Podcast, Helen Lewis, George Eaton and Lucy Fisher consider the fallout from the Conservative Party reshuffle, and ask what Labour can do in response. As life returns to normal in Brazil, Juliet Jacques and Ian Steadman decide once and for all whether this was THE BEST WORLD CUP EVER.

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1:06.0

George Eaton and Lucy Fission about the fallout from the reshuffle and how labour might

1:09.8

respond. Then Ian Stedman and Juliet Jake's and I took football. Was this the best World Cup ever? We'll find out later. I'm doing by George Eaton and Lucy Fisher to talk about the fallout from the

1:36.5

re-chuffle and what Labour's response to it should be. So George first

1:40.0

all were Labour put on the back foot by this re-sh? Were they expecting it to be as big as it was and

1:44.7

has their response been commensurately large?

1:47.2

I don't think anyone was really expecting to be as big as it was. Certainly, though if you saw the Gov move coming, William Haig was clearly increasingly

2:00.3

detached and had lost his passion, but I don't think anyone expected him to stand

2:05.5

down as foreign secretary before the election.

2:08.2

I think what it has done is it's shown that David Cameron can still surprise us that he could still take the

2:13.2

initiative. It was an impressive display of prime ministerial authority at a time

2:18.5

when in an age when it's increasingly hard for political leaders to control the news agenda.

2:24.8

So I think it's been a success in that respect and has shown also that the

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