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Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. Hello and welcome to the new statesman podcast. I'm Deputy Editor Helen Lewis and

this week I'll be talking to Caroline Crampton and Barbara Speed about

Labor's pink bass and whether we should talk about women's issues and politics

anymore. Then Ashley Cowburn and George Eaton

joined me to talk about the smaller parties.

What do they want in the event of coalition negotiations?

And finally, in Stedman and I discuss whether our tech is spying on us

and whether we should be bothered about it.

It's a special pink version of the politics section of this podcast this week as I'm joined by

Barbara Speed and Caroline Crampton discussed Labour Women's Launch sorry George.

I'll start with you Caroline there's been a lot of comment after the launch

about the pink bus.

Personally, were you shaken into your very core by the patronization evidenced by the pink bus?

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