NS#269: Brexit Chills and Thrills
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🗓️ 17 May 2018
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Can you tell your customs partnership from your max-fac? Helen and Stephen untangle the latest Brexit wrangling, and then discuss Stephen's recent trip to Israel and the moving of the US embassy to Jerusalem. Finally, they answer a listener question: what would the London mayoral race have looked like if Tessa Jowell had won the Labour nomination?
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| 0:00.0 | Attention at all passengers. You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in Uber credits to spend on your next train journey. |
| 0:11.0 | So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas. |
| 0:16.5 | Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply check the Uber app. I'm David |
| 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. |
| 1:06.2 | Listen to eight years hard labour wherever you get your podcasts. Hello I'm Helen and I'm Stephen and welcome to the New Statesman podcast this week we discuss the difference between Max Fack and the Customs Partnership and whether or |
| 1:10.1 | not anyone has got any interest in finding out the difference between them. |
| 1:13.0 | We talk about what I did on my holidays? |
| 1:15.0 | And you ask us, would Tess a jowl of one the London Mayor-Tete? |
| 1:18.0 | Stephen, I'm so excited to talk about Brexit. I am actually genuinely thrilled to talk |
| 1:27.4 | about Brexit. That's a lie. That's a massive lie you don't look thrilled. I'm |
| 1:31.4 | honestly am I'm thrilled in the context of the the N.S. |
| 1:35.4 | podcast where it can be slightly more discursive. I'm terrified about it in the |
| 1:39.8 | context of my free morning email. |
| 1:41.8 | GDPR compliant I should stress. |
| 1:44.5 | Is it? |
| 1:45.0 | Yeah, because everybody who signed up to it definitely agreed to sign up to it. |
| 1:48.0 | Okay, well, I hope anyway. |
| 1:51.0 | Hey, we're leaving the EU. |
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