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Planet Normal

'Am I Starmer's political prisoner? Absolutely'  | Lucy Connolly speaks to Allison Pearson

Planet Normal

Louisa Wells

News, News Commentary, Current Affairs, Telegraph, Society & Culture, Planet Normal, News And Current Affairs

4.72.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Citizens of Planet Normal, you were expecting the co-pilots to be on holiday during August but we now have a surprise bonus episode for you!


Allison was literally at the beach when the exciting news came through confirming Lucy Connolly was about to be released. Lucy is of course the Northampton mum and childminder who ad spent more than a year behind bars for posting a tweet which she quickly deleted in the wake of the Southport murders, and her cause has been very much championed here on Planet Normal.


So with Lucy finally on her way home, the ever intrepid co-pilot Pearson literally rushed back from her break to sit down with Lucy Connolly for her first interview, another planet normal, exclusive, just 24 hours after she left jail.


Watch the full interview here: https://youtu.be/5sO1oVzFSC0

Read the article here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/22/lucy-connolly-i-was-starmers-political-prisoner/


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Transcript

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0:00.0

The Telegraph

0:02.0

Have you been Kirstarmer's political prisoner?

0:12.0

Absolutely.

0:14.0

Free speech is exceedingly important in the UK and it is something that seemingly is diminishing.

0:21.6

He's a human rights lawyer so maybe he needs to look back at what people's human rights are,

0:27.6

what freedom of speech means and what the laws are in this country.

0:31.6

He won't keep me down. Like I said, to all the people that, you know, jeering that I was

0:36.6

sent to prison think it's a good thing, think it's funny, hope that they broke me while I was in there,

0:41.9

but I'm here to tell you that they didn't.

0:47.6

We have left off.

0:50.5

Now, dear citizens of Planet Normal, the co-pilot and I said we'd be on holiday during August,

0:56.1

and we are sort of.

0:58.1

Alison was literally at the beach, but then the exciting news came through confirming Lucy Connolly was about to be released.

1:05.9

Now the case of Lucy Connolly, the bereaved Northampton mum,

1:08.8

who got a staggering 31-month jail sentence

1:12.6

for a tweet she quickly deleted has been very much championed here on Planet Normal.

1:17.6

Lucy tweeted in the immediate aftermath of the murder in Southport of three little girls

1:22.6

at a Taylor Swift themed dance. And while she wrote was pretty nasty, she did quickly take her

1:29.8

tweet down, and we felt, like so many others, it made no sense to send Lucy to jail.

1:36.7

Alison's original article on Lucy Connolly tried to sort the real woman from the demonised

1:42.4

Tory counsellor's racist wife.

1:45.4

Alison also interviewed Lucy's husband Ray for Planet Normal back in March,

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