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🗓️ 15 March 2018
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Stephen and Anoosh discuss the unfolding story of the Russian spy attack in Salisbury, and wonder whether Jeremy Corbyn's previous foreign policy statements will cut through to voters. Then they analyse Philip Hammond's Spring Statement and the Conservatives' contradictory position on the economy. Finally, they answer a listener question: is Vince Cable right to say that the Brexit vote was driven by racism?
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0:45.4 | 2023. Tease and C's eligibility criteria and geographical restriction supply. Hi I'm Anush and I'm Stephen and this week we're talking about the spring statement |
1:06.9 | Russia and whether or not Vince cable was right to say Brexit was the product of |
1:11.7 | white nostalgia. |
1:13.0 | As we record, Theresa May, is yet to make her statement about the very, very serious measures |
1:27.7 | she will take against Russia. But because candidly full disclosure, unless you've been holding out on me and noose, neither of us I think are going to pretend that we are Russia experts. |
1:40.0 | I thought it would probably be more useful for us to talk about what we think the political |
1:45.8 | fallout here will be to any kind of ratcheting up of diplomatic tensions with Russia as a result of I can't believe I'm |
1:56.4 | about to praise you this because I mean if you have somehow listening to the news |
1:59.8 | tapes and podcasts but you've missed this story about a spy, a former spy being attacked with a |
2:06.1 | nerve agent in Salisbury. The spy had been moved in a swap deal, he and his daughter |
2:11.7 | are in critical condition, 21 other people have also got to the hospital, |
2:15.2 | it may even 500 other people in Salisbury are going to suffer some kind of effect. |
2:20.3 | The gas is one which is being manufactured in a lab, so it pretty much rules out the idea |
2:25.8 | and it's not a bi-state actor. Have I missed any of the other crucial? |
2:30.0 | They've also worked out what type of nerve agent it is and it's called Novichok sorry about the pronunciation and it's something that was invented in the Soviet Union in the 80s I think. |
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