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🗓️ 3 April 2020
⏱️ 88 minutes
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0:00.0 | This is obviously a very disappointing night for the Labour Party. |
0:05.0 | I want to also make it clear that I will not lead the party in any future general election campaign. |
0:12.0 | I will discuss with our party to ensure there is a process now of reflection on this result and on the policies that the party will take going forward. |
0:27.6 | It's not Corbinism. There is no such thing as Corbynism. |
0:33.6 | This day marks a significant milestone in the history of Corbinism, the last day of Jeremy Corbyn's |
0:39.3 | tenure as leader of the Labour Party. Over the course of this podcast, we've explored many |
0:44.1 | different aspects of his leadership, from the anti-Semitism crisis to his economic plan and beyond. |
0:49.9 | However, no post-mortem of Corbinism would be complete without a thorough examination of the anti-imperialist politics |
0:56.5 | Jeremy Corbyn built his entire political career on. Before his assent to the Labour leadership, |
1:01.9 | Jeremy Corbyn's role as chair of the campaign group stopped the war coalition, marked him among |
1:07.0 | allies as the left's foreign secretary. But what exactly is Corbynite foreign policy? Over the |
1:12.7 | course of his leadership, Corbyn's foreign policy positions were heavily scrutinized in the press, |
1:17.8 | over his response to the Assad regime's chemical weapons attacks in Syria, the poisoning of a |
1:22.6 | former Russian double agent by the GRU in Salisbury and military intervention against Islamic State. |
1:29.3 | In all instances, Corbyn failed to have any meaningful impact on the government's foreign policy |
1:34.3 | from opposition and in some cases did huge amounts of damage to Labour's popularity with the |
1:39.5 | electorate on matters of national security. But what would foreign policy have looked like with Jeremy Corbyn as |
1:45.6 | Prime Minister? And while his supporters frequently cited his record of support for human rights, |
1:50.8 | how does that record stand up to scrutiny? Hello and welcome to Corbinism the post-mortem, |
1:56.4 | with me, your host, Oz Catterjee. On this episode, to discuss foreign policy, anti-imperialism, |
2:02.5 | and who stands on the right side of history, we are joined by the chair of the Foreign Affairs |
2:06.8 | Committee, Conservative MP Tom Tuggenhardt, and, also sitting on the select committee, |
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