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🗓️ 13 March 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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0:00.0 | This is obviously a very disappointing night for the Labour Party. |
0:05.0 | I want to also make it clear that I will not lead the party in any future general election campaign. |
0:13.0 | I will discuss with our party to ensure there is a process now of reflection on this result and on the policies that the party will take going forward. |
0:27.5 | It's not Corbinism. There is no such thing as Corpulism. |
0:33.5 | Labour's defeat in the 2019 election was its worst in 84 years, losing 60 seats and 7.9% of the voters they managed to secure in 2017. |
0:44.5 | The shock for Labour was not just the scale of the defeat, but that the areas it was losing to the Tories had been voting Labour for generations. |
0:52.4 | The Labour heartlands in the north of England, otherwise known as |
0:55.8 | the Red Wall, had abandoned their traditional support for the party. Old, working class, |
1:01.4 | industrial and mining towns that had returned nothing but a Labour MP for decades were now |
1:06.8 | flipping Conservative, a prospect that would have seemed unthinkable only a few short years earlier. |
1:12.3 | If losing Scottish safe seats in 2015 was a low water mark for the party, the loss of seats like |
1:18.4 | Bolsover in 2019 was like a deep sea dive. Boris Johnson, who had successfully taken control of |
1:25.4 | the Conservative Party and crushed his own backbench Brexit rebels, |
1:29.6 | gambled on red walled towns preferring his Brexit Britain to the manifesto pledges made by Corbyn's labour. |
1:36.7 | Johnson's gamble paid off as Brexit, Corbyn's plummeting popularity with the electorate, |
1:42.8 | and years of neglect, combined to deliver a devastating |
1:46.4 | and fatal blow for the Corbyn project. But how exactly did the Labour Party lose seats that had only |
1:52.2 | ever voted Labour? How did a constituency like Bolsover, which had been returning socialist |
1:57.8 | stalwart Dennis Skinner to Parliament for nearly 50 years, end up backing |
2:02.4 | Boris Johnson. Hello and welcome to Corbinism the post-mortem with me, your host, Oz Catterjee. |
2:08.7 | Here on this week's episode to answer these questions and more about Labour's northern struggles, |
2:13.5 | we have one of the Labour MPs who lost their seat as the red wall crumbled. |
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