Johnson Goes (Pro)Rogue
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🗓️ 29 August 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
On this week's New Statesman Podcast, Stephen Bush and Anoosh Chakelian are discussing Boris Johnson's move to prorogue Parliament. They also touch upon the (long-awaited) spending review and, in You Ask Us, consider whether Jeremy Corbyn is stealthily using the media to his advantage.
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| 0:15.0 | Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. Hi I'm Stephen and I'm Anush and on this week's new station podcast we discuss the |
| 0:36.9 | prorogation of Parliament we talk about the looming spending review and you ask |
| 0:41.0 | us is Jeremy Corbyn's media strategy his fault or the medias? |
| 0:47.0 | So Stephen is sitting across from me having written what four articles already today |
| 0:56.0 | don't know how many you've written but it is the day in which we've discovered that |
| 0:59.9 | the government is going to suspend parliament. |
| 1:03.4 | So why don't you explain a bit about what the dates are and what that means? |
| 1:07.4 | So the government has, I mean normally the Queen has, but the government has used its, the executive has used its prerogative powers to basically bring the |
| 1:16.6 | parliamentary session to an end on a date yet to be decided from the 9th to the 12th of September, which will essentially mean that Parliament will sit for a little over a week. |
| 1:27.0 | Now, of course, the important significance of this is that Parliament only comes back on the second |
| 1:34.1 | and then it won't come back until the 14th under the government's plans. |
| 1:37.5 | Now the significance of this of course is that it decreases by essentially I think seven sitting days which is actually quite a lot |
| 1:46.0 | the amount of time that Parliament has to legislate to stop no deal. |
| 1:51.0 | Oh and the other important thing is is that the significance of the |
| 1:53.9 | 14th is it is basically as late as you can get away with doing it given the |
| 1:58.0 | statutory obligations than the legislature has already put on the executive and as close as possible to the |
| 2:05.1 | final European Council meeting on the 17th of October. So those statutory |
| 2:09.8 | obligations that's to report back about the Northern Irish Assembly. |
| 2:14.0 | Yeah, essentially the government now has a legal obligation to turn up a part, well to put forward a |
| 2:19.1 | report and then there to be a parliamentary debate within five days within certain intervals. |
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