The Tory Manifesto Is [REDACTED]
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🗓️ 28 November 2019
⏱️ 34 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 discuss the Conservatives' manifesto launch. Then, in You Ask Us, George Grylls subs in for Ailbhe to talk about all things Wales, before, finally, the original gang are brought back together to discuss Labour and the NHS.
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| 0:36.8 | discuss the Conservative manifesto we're joined by Patrick Alva and our |
| 0:40.6 | Anthony Howard's College George Grills to discuss the election in Wales. |
| 0:44.4 | And we talk about Jeremy Corbyn's intervention about the NHS and the UK U.S. trade deal. |
| 0:50.4 | So the big story this week, for a given value of the word big, is the Conservatives' manifesto being put forward at last. |
| 1:01.0 | Done on a Sunday in order to, well I was actually done on a Sunday in order to minimize the level of scrutiny, but actually... |
| 1:06.0 | They wanted more eyes on it. |
| 1:07.0 | They wanted because that's the most watched News Bulletin of the Week, the Sunday night, |
| 1:11.0 | news bulletins, because you have people lying from their |
| 1:13.2 | telly watching whatever Harry Potter is on i t.v too or whatever bond is on i t. |
| 1:18.4 | three don't know what they show on i t. v four these days you know Serbian. |
| 1:23.0 | Or maybe you're not watching his dark material? |
| 1:25.0 | Serbian. Well, that shows you how often I watch terrestrial television. |
| 1:28.0 | Yes, they wanted eyes on it. |
| 1:30.0 | Their core demographics eyes. |
| 1:32.0 | Yeah, I did a radio thing that night and one of the Tory cabinet ministers who was on there was saying exactly that. |
| 1:39.3 | Like you can brief the Sunday papers with the initial lines so that everyone's reading about it in the day and then they can sort of see the clips from the actual launch in the sort of evening news. So all of this narrative which maybe our listeners may not have picked up but has been sort of the |
| 1:53.6 | accepted truth of the Conservative manifesto that it was sort of a safety first |
| 1:57.6 | one paired down which they didn't really want people to make that much fanfare |
| 2:01.2 | about because of what happened last time around, kind of jars with what you've just said Patrick and what... |
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