The Conference Comedown
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🗓️ 3 October 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
On this week's New Statesman Podcast, Stephen Bush and Anoosh Chakelian recap Tory conference as a worse-for-wear Stephen returns from Manchester. Then, in You Ask Us, they consider your questions on whether the next election will be about Brexit, before rounding up by looking at Labour's Universal Credit announcements.
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| 0:00.0 | May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get |
| 0:08.0 | 10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home in the rain again. |
| 0:16.5 | Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. Hello I'm Anush and I'm Stephen and this is the New Statesman podcast. |
| 0:36.4 | Fresh from Conservative Party conference we talk about |
| 0:39.1 | what Stephen learned about the Conservative Party. |
| 0:41.7 | Anush tells me about Labour's plans to scrap universal credit. |
| 0:45.0 | And you ask us, will the next election be about Brexit? |
| 0:50.0 | So I'm joined by Stephen and comfortably with two Mike guards in between us |
| 0:56.9 | because he has got the infamous conference cold after coming back from |
| 1:01.2 | Conservative Party conference on the train from Manchester today. |
| 1:04.3 | Stephen, how are you feeling? |
| 1:05.5 | I'm actually feel fine. |
| 1:09.2 | I actually feel great to be honest which I've kept saying it's |
| 1:13.0 | sound like Macy Gray yeah I kept saying yeah like yeah I'm on phone doesn't and like you sound |
| 1:17.0 | terrible I feel great I don't understand why people think I but yeah so |
| 1:21.8 | fortunately the only the only thing of me which seems to have |
| 1:24.4 | negative after effects is my throat nose but it was odd because I in many ways |
| 1:31.7 | found this the most useful conservative Party conference I've ever been to because the effect of the suspension being undone is I think every lobbyist who didn't want to go basically went right that's my excuse I'm going to take it |
| 1:46.0 | which meant a lot of the time at the time at party conference I feel like you don't have much |
| 1:49.2 | of a sense of what the activists feel like and it's so hard to talk to any activists which to me at least is the |
| 1:54.3 | useful thing about conferences and right is ultimately I can speak to MPs and |
| 1:58.6 | staffers pretty easily in Westminster and I can go home at the end of the evening. The value of |
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