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My name is Alex Dorothy and this week I'll be talking with Alex Nuns about the British Labour Party.

You can listen to the pod on SoundCloud, iTunes and ACAST,

and you can also follow on Facebook and Twitter at Poll Theory Other. Alex Nuns is the author of the

candidate, Jeremy Corbyn's Improbable Path to Power, published by all books and the winner of the

Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing. He's also the co-editor of tweets from Terria, Egypt's Revolution in the words of the people who made it, and Rose's Award for Radical Publishing. He's also the co-editor of Tweets from Terrier, Egypt's Revolution in the words of the people who made it, and he's the political correspondent for Red Pepper. I was sort of wondering if you could, you know, I was thinking that in my mind you're very much sort of identified with, because of writing the candidate, that you're very sort of identified with Labor and with Corbyn and the Corbyn moment.

And so I'd sort of realise that I don't know a huge amount about your politics before the 2015 Labour leadership contest.

So could you say something about sort of your political background, how you felt about the Labour Party

and also what you thought Corbyn's initial prospects were when

he first announced his candidacy?

Sure. Well, I was actually political correspondent for Red Pepper magazine for quite a long

time, which was actually I was supposed to be the political editor. The editor, Hillary

Wainwright, wanted me to be political editor, basically to make me write more articles and do more work on a kind of volunteer basis.

But I managed to resist that. I managed to resist promotion and remained as political correspondent.

But that meant I was writing articles about the Labour Left as well as

about the Greens and about respect and various other things. But actually the work I did kind

of writing about the Labour Left was really, really useful for the candidate because that's, first

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