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The Alexei Sayle Podcast

105: Locas Corrupti (with Paul Holden)

The Alexei Sayle Podcast

Alexei Sayle and Talal Karkouti

Comedy, Government, Society & Culture

4.8610 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Alexei welcomes author and investigative journalist Paul Holden to the show to discuss corruption and deceit in the Labour Party - and boy, oh, boy is there a lot of it! All this and more is discussed in brilliantly shocking detail in his new book.

Buy Paul's book The Fraud: Keir Starmer, Morgan McSweeney and the Crisis of British Democracy here: https://orbooks.com/catalog/the-fraud/ 

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The Alexei Sayle Podcast is produced and edited by Talal Karkouti
Music by Tarboosh Records
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Transcript

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0:00.0

The

0:07.0

The Hello everybody, welcome to episode 105 of the Alexis L podcast.

0:31.2

Now, I have previously said that if I ever went on celebrity mastermind,

0:35.0

my specialist questions would be firstly the sort of

0:43.1

honour novels of Evelyn Warr, sort of honor trilogy, and then if I made it through to the next

0:48.1

round weapons of World War II. But I realized that the other area of obsession that I have and I've had for, I think

0:57.8

certainly since lockdown and probably before, is corruption in the Labour Party. So if I was going to

1:03.0

go on Celebrity Mastermind, I would, my first topic now would be corruption within the right wing of the Labour Party.

1:12.9

That would be my specialist subject.

1:15.0

So therefore, this is a book that I have been anticipating for a very long time.

1:21.1

I think it's been quite a long time coming.

1:23.1

It is Paul Holden's The Fraud.

1:26.1

And I am very excited to have Paul Holden with me today.

1:29.8

Hi, Paul.

1:30.8

Hi.

1:31.6

Thanks for having me.

1:33.2

Well, it's a pleasure.

1:35.2

This is more exciting than if I had Kenny Del Glecheon or, you know, two-pack support. The late two, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, too, two pack shippo.

1:45.1

Um, I, I, I know who he is. Fuck off.

2:04.5

So, Paul, tell me really about the,

2:07.3

and I know this book has been in the works for a long time.

2:10.2

Just really, just give us a rundown.

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