The Sinn Féin Surge
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🗓️ 6 February 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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On this week's New Statesman Podcast, Stephen Bush and Anoosh Chakelian are joined by Ailbhe Rea and Patrick Maguire to talk about the latest setbacks in the rollout of Universal Credit. Then, in You Ask Us, they take your question on scoping out new MPs for gossip fodder, and, finally, Ailbhe reports back from the Republic of Ireland ahead of the upcoming election.
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| 1:13.1 | we discuss Universal Credit. |
| 1:14.7 | You ask us how we scout out new talent |
| 1:17.7 | in the new parliamentary parties. |
| 1:19.6 | And Alva explains to us what she found out |
| 1:21.8 | when she went to Ireland to report on the election. |
| 1:24.0 | So Universal Credit has been delayed again. |
| 1:32.0 | Anouche, you're our kind of universal credit watcher. |
| 1:35.6 | I'm not going to do anything awful like ask you how many times it's been delayed, but so yeah, |
| 1:40.0 | what's... |
| 1:41.0 | So I did use to count. I think I'd got to like six maybe, but obviously there's different types of delays so one delay is the full rollout which is migrating every person claiming benefits onto the new system and another type of delay is |
| 1:53.5 | delaying just moving over the new claimants so the original timetable was |
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