Tier Jerking
The New Statesman | UK politics and culture
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🗓️ 1 December 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
On today's New Statesman Podcast, Stephen Bush, Anoosh Chakelian and Ailbhe Rea look at the upcoming Conservative rebellion on the tier system. Then, in You Ask Us, they field your questions on whether there's anything that Kier Starmer could do to better appease the Labour left. Also, happy birthday Anoosh!
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| 1:05.6 | Look for lung cancer inequalities in the new statesman podcast we discuss the upcoming conservative rebellion on the tier system and you ask us should |
| 1:30.4 | Kiestama be nicer to the party's left? |
| 1:32.8 | The government is facing a rebellion from some of its MPs this week on the tier system that's kicking in after |
| 1:46.3 | the lockdown in England is up on Wednesday, the 2nd of December. |
| 1:51.5 | Boris Johnson has been doing what he can to try and reassure of will have on the rest of public health and the economy and society. |
| 2:05.0 | Will that be enough to quell the rebels and do you think that there's a real danger for the government here at all? |
| 2:11.0 | Ultimately, I don't think it will be enough to quell the rebellion. |
| 2:15.8 | They're basically in every parliamentary vote. |
| 2:17.5 | There are two groups of would-be rebels, right? |
| 2:19.2 | There are group of people who are basically looking for a pretext not to do it, right? And they'll broadly take anything. |
| 2:25.0 | CF like the Internal Market Bill, where obviously not all because some do continue to report, |
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