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The New Statesman | UK politics and culture

The New Statesman Podcast: Episode Forty-Nine

The New Statesman | UK politics and culture

The New Statesman

News & Politics, Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2014

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

On this week's New Statesman podcast, George Eaton and Lucy Fisher talk to Caroline Crampton about Labour's need to engage the blue-collar vote, N​S editor Jason Cowley explains why Brazil will be the last authentic World Cup tournament, Philip Maughan talks to Baileys and Goldsmiths Prize-winning novelist Eimear McBride, and Yo Zushi interviews Texas-based musician Jerry David DeCicca, frontman of the Black Swans, who plays us out.

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Cancel any time T's and sees apply. Hello and fortunes of Labor and the Lib Dems. N.S. editor Jason Cowley and Ian Steadman discussed the World Cup in Brazil and whether this could be the last authentic tournament.

1:19.0

Philip Morne talks to the novelist E.M at Bride winner of the 2014 Bailey's prize and

1:24.0

Yoesushi interviews musician Jerry David Deceika. I'm here with George Eaton and Lucy Fisher and we're going to discuss two things we've got in the magazine this week that

1:44.2

seemed to suggest quite interesting shifts in two different parties.

1:47.4

We're going to kick off with Labour. Now, Marcus Roberts, who I understand used to work

1:51.7

for Ed Miliband, has written a very interesting piece in the magazine this week about

1:56.8

Labour's fortunes. George what does he say?

1:58.8

Yeah so Marcus who is Deputy General Secretary of the Fabian Society and served as field director of

2:04.8

Millaban's leadership campaign has written quite a bold piece saying that based on

2:10.1

the number crunch and he does he thinks labors on course to lose at the moment, the

2:15.3

Conservatives will be the largest party and that they badly need a change of strategy to avoid

2:21.0

that outcome. In particular he thinks that they need to do more to appeal to what he calls blue collar voters.

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