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This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats.

So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's.

Trains, now on Uber. I'm Caroline Crampton. Hello and Welcome to the New Statesman podcast.

I'm Caroline Crampton standing in for your regular host Helen Lewis.

On this week's show, George Eaton, Harry Lambert and Anusha Calian

talk about Ed Miliband's fortunes and Labor's route to the 2015 election.

I discuss the murder of Lee Rigby and whether Facebook should be supplying information

to our security services with Ian's deadman, and John Eledge and I discuss private

schools and whether they should really have charitable status. Hello I'm Harry Lambert editor of May 2015 and I'm joined this week by George Eton, political

editor of the new statesman and a new Shaquilian, our staggers editor, to

discuss the week in politics. George let's start with you in your politics column

this week. What is it that you said? Well I look at why after the

worst period of his leadership Ed Millerband has got his mojo back as one of

his advisors put it to me.

So he's feeling a sense of renewed confidence.

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