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Episode 85: UK Labour's John McDonnell — Is Strasbourg tearing MEP families apart?

Episode 85: UK Labour's John McDonnell — Is Strasbourg tearing MEP families apart?

FromEU Confidential


Episode 85: UK Labour's John McDonnell — Is Strasbourg tearing MEP families apart?

FromEU Confidential

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Length:
32 minutes
Released:
Feb 14, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

This week's feature interview is a 15-minute highlight reel from John McDonnell's already famous interview with POLITICO's London Playbook editor Jack Blanchard. In addition to discussing Brexit next steps and Labour's anti-Semitism challenges, the U.K. shadow chancellor landed himself in hot water by describing Britain's wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill as a "villain" for sending in the army to tackle a miners' strike in 1910. The question now: Did McDonnell successfully tackle a taboo, or simply prove that the current Labour opposition is unelectable?The podcast panel of Alva Finn, and POLITICO's new Paris correspondent Rym Momtaz, advise an anonymous MEP who wrote to POLITICO to say that the pressure of living and working in three cities (their home city, Brussels and Strasbourg) is tearing families apart. To continue the family theme, we also discuss Viktor Orbán's new policy in Hungary: exempting the mothers of four or more children from income tax. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
Released:
Feb 14, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

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