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NS#243: Scandal Overload

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🗓️ 7 November 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Helen and Anoosh discuss the extraordinary pile up of scandals in Westminster, from Priti Patel and Boris Johnson's foreign affairs gaffes to the continuing fallout from the sexual harassment allegations in Parliament. Then they find some glimmers of hope in the latest expert views on Brexit, and finally, they answer a listener question: why does nobody care about the Paradise Papers?

Contact us on Twitter @ns_podcasts@helenlewis or @anoosh_c.

Further reading:

Anoosh on Priti Patel.

Helen on sexual harassment at Westminster.



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0:00.0

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0:11.0

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0:15.0

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0:20.0

I'm David Arullovich. Listen to my new series from Tortoise, Eight Years Hard Labour.

0:25.9

It tells the extraordinary story of the double revolution that engulfed the Labour Party after 2015,

0:31.6

from centre left to hard left and back again, the battles and

0:35.7

disasters that accompanied them and the two men who led those revolutions,

0:39.7

Jeremy Corbyn and Kiea.

1:06.2

Listen to eight years hard labour wherever you get your podcasts. Hello I'm Helen and I'm Anush and welcome to the new statesman podcast in this week's podcast we talk about the fallout from Pretty Patel and Boris Johnson

1:09.8

scandals the sexual harassment allegations in Westminster.

1:12.6

What's happening with Brexit?

1:13.8

And why does no one care about the Paradise Papers?

1:16.6

Well, it's been another busy week. I'm joined by a new chakalian because Stephen is off in his

1:26.9

furlined air-conditioned box whatever it is that he does he was tweeting south-eastern

1:30.8

trains about trains yesterday so I'm guessing he's gone somewhere on a train.

1:34.7

I think it's been an extraordinary week.

1:37.1

There was a great tweet by Hugo Rifkin of the times saying that an ordinary, like there

1:40.9

are so many scandals happening at the same time that actually know everyone's kind of surviving them, right?

1:44.6

It's like the three stooges all trying to get through a door together.

1:47.4

So to recap, what have we got?

1:49.0

We've got Boris Johnson went in front of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee and said that Nazanin Zagari Ratcliffe

1:55.0

was training journalists in Iran. She says she was on a family holiday, so she's now been arrested essentially

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