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Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. Welcome to the New Statesman podcast. I'm Decped Sir Helen Lewis and this week I'm joined

by George Eton and Raphael Bear to talk about reshuffle prospects. Philip Morne talks to

Kate Mossman about Iron Maiden and I discuss the overhiked hyperloop.

I'm joined by George Eaton, editor of the Stagers and Raphael Bear, our political editor.

We're going to talk a little bit about Labour. So George, you've just written something

that says that Labour have got a kind of host of policy goodies I think you call them coming up including

repealing the bedroom tax.

Yes that's right so over the summer a lot of labour activists backbenches have been frustrated by what this year is a

policy vacuum and Chris Leslie

at one of the few big briefings they did on living standards said we'll have some

policy goodies for you and I know that one of the policies that they are planning to announce before 2015

will be repealing the bedroom tax as a clear point of difference with the Tories because it's

become such a symbol of unfairness.

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