2020 Hindsight: LABOUR’s Report Card with NICK COHEN

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🗓️ 18 December 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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The Labour Party has just endured its most self-torturing year since, well, last year. Is Keir Starmer beginning to turn the party’s fortunes around? Is the Left’s guerrilla war against the Leadership all noise or is Labour truly in a civil war? Does Corbyn even want to come back into the Labour fold? And above the infighting, is the Opposition doing enough opposing? Nick Cohen of The Observer gives his End of Term Report for the Labour Party to Dorian Lynskey. “Britain is not a conservative nation – whenever Labour wants to win an election, it wins an election.” “Oppositions do lose elections, and they do it when people can’t imagine them as a government.” “Being next to the EU is like being in bed with an elephant. It might not notice you, but you notice everything it does.” “Of all the hills the Left has chosen to die on, it’s this Trumpian denial of Corbyn’s record on antisemitism.” Presented by Dorian Lynskey. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Logo and branding by Mark Taylor. Music by Kenny Dickinson. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters production See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:11.3	On 4th of April Kiestama was elected Labour leader with more than 56% of the vote.
1:16.8	It's not been an easy year, wouldn't have been even without COVID-19.
1:20.1	His task was to show Labour was under new management without completely rejecting the legacy of Jeremy Corbyn.
1:24.7	But the publication of the EHRC report into anti-Semitism in October sparked a showdown between the new and old leaders.
1:31.6	How has Darma done so far and what challenges lie ahead for labour?
1:35.6	I was going also going to say new labour, new, new, new, new, new, new, new, labor.
1:39.2	With me to write his End of Year report card, it's Nick Cohen, columnist for the Observer and elsewhere.
1:43.6	Hi Nick, thanks for joining me.
1:45.0	Hi Dorian, my pleasure.
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