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NS#247: The Brexit Remix

The New Statesman | UK politics and culture

The New Statesman

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🗓️ 7 December 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Helen and Stephen spend the whole episode unpicking the tangled threads of the Brexit negotiations. Why did the DUP wreck Theresa May's plans for the Irish border? Can the Lib Dems make a comeback as a party? Can the Tories reconcile their political objectives with their desire to leave the EU behind? This bumper special has (some of) the answers. Oh, and Stephen won an award.

Further reading:

Stephen on Labour and the customs union.

Jeremy Corbyn in GQ.



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0:00.0

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0:11.0

So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas.

0:16.5

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0:20.8

Aruhovich 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.

1:07.4

Listen to eight years hard labour wherever you get your podcasts. Hello I'm Helen and I'm Stephen and today we have an extra special long extended Brexit remix where we talk about all the issues that have been dominating the headlines

1:11.0

this week. I forgot how we start the podcast even. This is what happens when we don't have India.

1:25.5

So what we do is we start the podcast by in this instance me saying we are in fact going to

1:30.3

talk about Brexit. Wait no we're going to talk first of all about your award, which I think

1:35.1

podcast listeners will be very excited to hear about.

1:36.8

Last night Stephen won political journalist of the year, or even maybe actually journalist of the year.

1:41.0

Journalist of the year.

1:42.0

Screw all those guys doing like environment correspondence. Who are you all there? actually journalist of a year. journalist, yeah. Yeah, I mean, there was no modifier.

1:46.0

At the Political Studies Association.

1:48.0

Oh, and it was a really nice event, actually.

1:50.0

We got to see N.S. favorite James Graham, you know that we previously had been in the pay of Big

1:54.8

Graham advertising his play.

1:57.1

Sadly, Harry's and their German factory were nowhere to be seen.

2:01.6

Janis Verrifakis unfortunately did not appear.

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