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Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. Hello and this week's the new statesman podcast I'm deputy editor Helen Lewis and this week I talked to George

Eaton about the fallout from Maria Miller's resignation

Michael project talks to the novelist Jim Crace and I chat to Ian Stedman

about the internet's biggest security floor, Hart Bleed. I'm joined by George Eaton editor of the Staggers, Raphael Bear is away on a sunlouger somewhere.

We're going to talk a little bit about the year in review.

So MPs have broken up for their Easter recess. Maria Miller has broken up with her

cabinet post for good. So George, how much lasting effect do you think that the

Maria Miller scandal will have or is it a sort of sudden squall that occupied us for

a week? I think it is I think it's that I think think it's the latter. I think the problem for the Tories has been that it has crowded out all the good news they've had on the economy, the improved

forecasts on the IMF this week suggesting the UK is going to grow faster

than any other G7 country and all of that was missed it was 29 minutes into PMQs when a Tory

MP finally mentioned that.

With one of those amazing planted questions presumably.

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