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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 Her dear Helen Lewis,

and this week I'll be talking to Raphael Bear and Caroline Crampton

about whether Labour are really bashing the rich.

Our editor Jason Coundly talks to George and David Kiniston

about their cover stories on private schools and social mobility,

and I talked a feminist campaigner Caroline Criado Perez

about a change to the stalking doors. I'm joined by our political editor Raphael Bear and our web editor Caroline Crampton

to talk about labour and the economy in the wake of the 50-P tax rate.

So Raff, how did that announcement play initially and how's that developed throughout the week?

Well it obviously went down spectacularly badly with the actually not very large

number of people who would be eligible to pay at the top rate of tax.

Tragically the tax ban really that newspaper

columnists and Tory donors fall into.

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