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🗓️ 31 January 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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0:00.0 | Corbinism, the post-mortem, is kindly sponsored by the Media Masters podcast, a series of one-to-one |
0:06.1 | interviews with the very biggest media names, hosted by Paul Blanchard. You can tune in any time at |
0:11.7 | Mediamasters.fm.m. And now, here's the show. This is obviously a very disappointing night |
0:19.0 | for the Labour Party. I want to also make it clear that I will not lead the party in any future general election campaign. |
0:28.6 | I will discuss with our party to ensure there is a process now of reflection on this result |
0:36.6 | and on the policies that the party will take going forward. |
0:43.5 | It's not Corbinism. There is no such thing as Corbynism. |
0:48.9 | After defeating Gordon Brown's Labour in the 2010 general election, David Cameron and Nick Clegg's |
0:54.3 | Conservative Liberal Democrat Coalition Government were faced with a growing constitutional question |
0:58.9 | posed by a resurgent Scottish nationalist party. In a manner that would ultimately encapsulate |
1:04.3 | his doomed tenure as Prime Minister, Cameron agreed to the SNP's request for a referendum on |
1:09.3 | Scottish independence. |
1:13.2 | Cameron's gamble was based on two assumptions. |
1:16.3 | Firstly, that a unionist victory was guaranteed, |
1:20.8 | and secondly, thinking that victory would end the question mark over the union for a generation. |
1:21.9 | The first part of Cameron's gamble paid off, |
1:24.5 | as the Labour Party campaigned alongside the coalition government and Scotland voted to |
1:28.9 | remain part of the Union by a narrower than expected 10-point margin. But instead of ending it for a |
1:34.4 | generation, the Scottish independence movement was galvanised and Cameron's naive, newfound confidence |
1:39.6 | in winning referenda would eventually lead to the constitutional quagmire of Britain's exit from the |
1:44.6 | European Union. Labour's support in Scotland collapsed following the referendum and in the 2015 general |
1:50.7 | election, Ed Miliband's party lost 40 out of their 41 seats, with only Edinburgh South's Ian |
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