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The Owen Jones Podcast

34. Clive Lewis: "There is no route to power for Labour without transformative policies"

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Since becoming a Labour MP in 2015, Clive Lewis has made a huge impression: from serving in Jeremy Corbyn's Shadow Cabinet to fighting for climate justice. We had a lot to talk about: Corbyn's suspension, Labour and antisemitism, racism, proportional representation, whether Keir Starmer will stick to his promises - and Labour's future.


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0:00.0

Hello, hello, hello, this is Owen Jones, welcome to the podcast, Clive Lewis.

0:14.0

Now he's an old palamine, he's also the Labour MP for Noise South, he's very much on the

0:20.4

party's left, but he's of a left which is very free thinking if you like, and I want

0:27.9

to talk to him and this was a few weeks ago, it's still very relevant, about the state

0:32.2

of the Labour Left, about the state of the Labour Party, about Jeremy Corbyn, and about British

0:38.4

politics, about a progressive alliance, that's his big thing by the way, about how we get rid

0:43.4

of the Tories, about electoral reform, we talk about a lot of stuff, now a bit housekeeping

0:48.1

to help us expand and challenge the right-wing media, and to keep going, please do support

0:53.1

us on patreon.com for a slash Owen Jones 84, or use a support or function in the description,

0:58.6

please do give us five stars to help others listen and do subscribe, with all of that listen

1:05.8

to the dulcet tones of Clive Lewis.

1:10.8

Hi, hello, how you doing?

1:15.1

Hi, Owen and Keir.

1:18.0

Rickman, that Keir's over there, you've missed, you've missed, you've got the one,

1:22.0

that's Rickman, I'm sorry, we're on Keir's deal, we've got the place, oh, there we go,

1:28.8

so these cats are like part of the ambiance of the interview I take.

1:33.4

It seems that way, they certainly keen to get involved on that, I just shut the door,

1:38.0

look outside, can they survive outside? I mean are they like,

1:44.4

I mean, okay, look, this is the most champagne sort of thing, obviously I've got to say,

1:48.5

but they are Burmese cats, and the reason we've got Burmese cats is because they're like dogs.

1:55.6

Oh yeah, they are, yeah, I've met them. Yeah, you have, you haven't met them,

1:59.2

but they can't be, you can't let them outside because they have no survival skills.

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