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🗓️ 19 September 2019
⏱️ 31 minutes
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On this week's New Statesman podcast, Stephen Bush and Ailbhe Rea discuss the Liberal Democrat conference in Bournemouth and whether the party is ready to welcome defectors with open arms. Then, Stephen talks to Emily Bootle about a new BBC app trying to make classical music accessible to the masses.
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1:07.4 | Liberal Democrat conference and I'm joined by Emily to discuss a new classical music |
1:11.7 | app that has me discovering my inner reactionary. |
1:14.1 | So we've just got back from what Alva is actually your first party conference full stop so you |
1:24.9 | first ever conference yeah you really went in in the deep end with the liberal Democrats who |
1:30.1 | are yeah so what were your impressions of it? |
1:32.6 | I had a really nice time, thanks to all the NS readers who said hello, it was nice. |
1:38.0 | Yeah, I find it so interesting because obviously the Liberal Democrats thrash out all of their party policy at |
1:44.3 | conference so the debates on the main conference floor are really fascinating and |
1:50.0 | quite important for what will be in their manifesto. |
1:53.0 | So I mean, I suppose the highlight was their debate over |
1:56.0 | whether they would bring in revoking Article 50 |
1:59.6 | if they won a majority at the next general election. I thought that debate was so interesting. |
2:06.1 | Yeah, that would have been my highlight. There were quite good interventions from people for and against. Obviously it passed overwhelmingly with what 90% of the people |
2:15.4 | they're voting in favor of it but there were quite strong arguments made against it. |
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