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🗓️ 24 May 2018
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Helen and Stephen are joined by Tom Hamilton to discuss the prospect of an early election and the history of PMQs, and then they answer a listener question: is the media in trouble, or better than ever?
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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. |
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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. |
1:03.7 | Listen to eight years hard labour wherever you get your podcasts. Hello I'm Stephen and I'm Helen and on this week's new station we talked to Tom Hamilton about PMQs we discuss whether or not there'll be |
1:07.2 | another election and we ask ourselves is the media in trouble or better than ever. |
1:19.0 | Stephen, I'm very excited that we've been joined in the podcast of Bunkeret. Actually our last episode before we move to our Swanky New Offices complete with their podcast suite. |
1:24.8 | Let's downplay expectations room, a podcast room. |
1:28.8 | With walls, maybe a floor even, who can say? |
1:31.4 | But joining us is Tom Hamilton. Hello, |
1:33.3 | Hello. You work for the Labour Party for quite a long time, work most recently in |
1:36.4 | Tom Watson's office. You've now written a book, Punch and Judy politics |
1:39.1 | with Aizha Hazarika and we're going to talk about Prime Minister's questions later and actually how |
1:44.4 | various Labour people come off in the book. But first of all Stephen tell me |
1:48.6 | about this madness about the early election. There's not going to be an early |
1:52.0 | election is there please? I mean I don't know because I have this |
1:54.4 | problem then there are two hypotheticals neither of which I can really convince |
1:59.4 | myself of so the first is that Brexit can be successfully negotiated with the House of Commons as it is currently constituted |
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