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Trains now on Uber. Tees and sees apply check the Uber app. Hello and welcome to the New Statesman podcast. I'm Helen Lewis Deputy Editor and each

week the team and I will be bringing an exciting mix of interviews, discussion and

analysis. This week George Eton Raphael Bear and I discuss the week in

politics.

Our arts editor and pop critic Kate Mossman talks to Philip Morn about Spotify,

and Alex Hearn wonders whether Amazon has finally decided to make some serious money. I'm joined by a political editor Raphael Bear and George Eaton editor of the Staggers to talk about the week in politics.

George first big excitement huge vindication of all the Tory austerity, GDP at 0.6%, right?

That's right, so the figure is probably, it's high enough for the Tories to just about

claim that a recovery is underway and still low enough for labor to say we should be doing better.

The toys are jubilant because it is higher than the figure from the OBR and I think there really

was a fear that is growth ever going to return and that's that's why our expectations have become so downgraded now that 0.6% is seen as cause for celebration when the reality is we're still stuck in the

slurist recovery for a hundred years. And still how much lower than the

pre- Crash peak? The UK economy is still 3.3% smaller than it was before the crash.

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