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

I'll be talking to Raphael Bear about the Clegg Farage debate. Alex Clark will talk to

Booker Prize winner Eleanor Caton and I'll talk to Ian Stedman about hashtag activism. I'm doing by a political editor Raphael Bear to talk about well let's talk

about the big issue of the week which is of course Europe we're recording this

the night after Nigel Farage and Nick Farage or Nick Farage as David

Dunwillby put it it's faced off again about Europe this time the margin of

between them was even bigger right I mean it was an even more convincing win for

Nigel Farage do you think that was a fair reflection of what happened in the debate?

And tonight actually, last night rather, I think it was actually, after the first debate, my own personal view was that Nick Clegg had won the argument and had

looked more steady and competent and reasonable whereas the UKIP leader had had his slightly sort of foam flecked

cantankerous side exposed. It didn't surprise me that after that first debate,

opinion poll still backed Farage just because public opinion is sort of viscerally hostile to the EU.

A lot of people are pretty hostile to Nick Clegg, and so Farage had all the advantages of an outsider. I was even less surprised

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