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The New Statesman | UK politics and culture

The New Statesman Podcast: Episode Seventy

The New Statesman | UK politics and culture

The New Statesman

News & Politics, Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2014

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

On this week's New Statesman podcast: George Eaton, Anoosh Chakelian and Helen Lewis discuss the fallout from the Autumn Statement (and the ugly cuts that will define government policy after 2015), Daniel Trilling tells Xan Rice about the migrants risking life and limb to enter Fortress Europe, and Jonn Elledge, Philip Maughan and Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett discuss the "confidence gap" that separates students at state schools and private schools.

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1:15.4

Rian and Lucy Coslet talk about private schools and privilege. The It's the week of the autumn statement.

1:37.0

Traditionally quite a small affair but it's taken on huge significance in recent years.

1:41.0

It's also considered this year to be the big final fiscal statement of the

1:44.7

coalition. I'm joined by George Eaton and Anushicalian to discuss it. George, you were watching the

1:50.2

statement you lucky, lucky person. Let's start up by saying, how did Osborne look?

1:56.0

What was he, you know, what kind of, he didn't bring a kind of austerity chancellor vibe to it.

2:00.0

He brought a kind of good times of here again feel didn't he? Yes he did and

2:04.7

anyone watching it could have guessed you know there's an election only only five

2:08.6

ways only five months away and even by Osbourne standards and of course as well as chance that I he is the

2:14.4

Conservatives main political strategist it was a statement brimming with political intent

2:20.7

so it was aimed really at minimizing the conservative weaknesses as they see it on the

2:25.9

NHS and on wealth taxes. So he said we'll be spending more on the NHS too. He's announced what is really his own version of the

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