Who Is The Real John McDonnell?
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🗓️ 6 September 2018
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Helen and Stephen are joined by New Statesman editor Jason Cowley to discuss his recent interview with the shadow chancellor, John McDonnell. Then, Helen talks to the feminist campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez about the anti-Brexit Women For A People's Vote campaign. Finally, they tackle a listener question: what's going on with Labour's NEC elections?
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| 1:31.6 | This week the boss man Jason Callie joined just to talk |
| 1:33.8 | about his interview with John McDonnell. Caroline Croudo Paris joins us to talk about a |
| 1:37.0 | people's vote on Brexit. And you ask us what's up with the NEC? Hello and welcome to the New States and podcast as a special back-to-school treat for you this week. |
| 1:52.0 | We're joined by, I was going to say our |
| 1:53.8 | arson but that's not actually a comparison you'd like anymore is it our |
| 1:56.8 | editor Jason Cowley hello Jason hello Jason hello hello hello |
| 1:59.2 | it's great to be back here actually I haven't done this podcast since the summer when I was doing a |
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| 2:06.6 | here is because you've written this week's cover story some of which came out |
| 2:09.2 | at the weekend which is an interview with John McDonnell, the Shadow Chancellor. |
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