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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Presented by Allegra Stratton and Tom Clark and produced by Francesca Panetta

Politics Weekly podcast: A new politics?

According to David Cameron it's time for a New Politics, but what does
that really mean? We ask how the new coalition will work and what the make-up of the new cabinet tells us. Jonathan Freedland thinks the Liberal Democrats have done OK on numbers, but not on big jobs.

Julian Glover ventures that even though Nick Clegg has been given the job of parliamentary reform thinks it's going to be tough for him to push all that much through.

We ask whether this is a new liberal moment. Jonathan says there is potential for a huge realignment of British politics while Seumas Milne thinks the Lib Dems have been drawn in to the hawkish Tory line.

Finally we look at Labour, as candidates for the leadership start to emerge. Julian Glover gives his vote to John Cruddas while Seumas thinks that the party has to move from the New Labour style that has dominated the party for the last 13 years.

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