81. Ex-New Zealand PM Helen Clark on monarchy, extreme poverty, and Jacinda Ardern
The Rest Is Politics
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🗓️ 2 December 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another special episode of The Restisted Politics with me, Anastakamble. |
| 0:12.6 | And me, Rory Stewart. |
| 0:14.6 | And I say special because we've got a very special guest. |
| 0:17.1 | We're thrilled to have another former Prime Minister, another female former Prime Minister, |
| 0:23.0 | another Antipodian former Prime Minister in the form of Helen Clark who was Prime Minister |
| 0:28.6 | of New Zealand from 1999 to 2008, who was leader of the Labour Party in New Zealand. |
| 0:35.8 | I think I'm right in saying for even longer than my old boss was leader of the Labour Party |
| 0:39.5 | here. |
| 0:40.5 | You've leader of the Labour Party for 15 years. |
| 0:42.4 | And have stayed very, very involved in public policy. |
| 0:46.1 | You chaired the World Health Organization inquiry into COVID. |
| 0:50.4 | You are very into the whole extractive industries and how that might relate to climate. |
| 0:57.1 | And you buzz around the world doing all sorts of things. |
| 1:00.4 | And one thing I know that Rory wants to talk about in particular is the head of UNDP |
| 1:06.4 | focused on the United Nations Development Programme. |
| 1:09.9 | But you come to us to this splendid jazz club somewhere in Soho, hotfoot from Prime Minister's |
| 1:17.4 | questions. |
| 1:18.4 | I'm amazed that you even... |
| 1:19.4 | I mean, why did you want to go and watch it, Helen? |
| 1:21.9 | I love Prime Minister's questions. |
| 1:24.2 | I still see the snippets on the BBC News when I'm home. |
| 1:28.1 | And I first began popping into PMQ when I was a student on a scholarship in London in 1976 |
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