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Trains now on Uber. Tees and sees apply check the Uber app. Hello and welcome to the New Statesman podcast.

I'm Deputy Editor Helen Lewis

and this week I talk to Raphael Bear and George Eaton

about Sadiq Khan, London Merrill Race,

and the Problem of Housing.

Philip Morne and Michael Procher discuss the real books of the year and I talked

to Ian Stedman about whether you'd really want your genome sequenced. I'm going by Raphael Bear, our political editor and George Eaton, editor of The Staggars, to talk about the week in politics.

First up, George, let's talk about your interview with Sadiq Khan, which is happening in the shadow of a kind of decisions about the London mayoral race and who might run for it on Labour's point.

So where is Sadiq Khan positioning himself?

But he was appointed as Shadow Minister for London by

Melaband in January and so now he has a license to obviously focus and talk

about the capital a lot and that does put him in a good position to stand and he has the

advantage that he can he can speak about these issues without being accused of

...