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Where Politics Meets History

Bonus: In Conversation with Jacqui Smith

Where Politics Meets History

Global

Politics, History, News

4.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2018

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

In association with the Progressive Britain Podcast, this is a recording of an event organised by Progress. It features an ‘In Conversation’ with Jacqui Smith and Margaret Beckett. The chair is Progress Deputy Director Stephanie Lloyd.

Transcript

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It's somewhat of a surreal moment for myself to be introducing them, but obviously

0:37.4

we have

0:37.8

Margaret Beckett and Jackie Smith here they are absolute stalwart of the Labour Party

0:43.9

they are pioneers within the feminist movement of the Labour Party as well and I think

0:49.1

we're about to hear some fantastic insights into Jackie's new book which really histories some of the Honourable

0:55.7

Ladies that have led the way in Parliament up to now.

1:00.0

So Margaret, how did it get off the ground?

1:02.4

My co-editor is Ian Dale, who people will know as an LBC presenter, right-wing commentator, not a member of the Tory party

1:14.6

anymore, formerly managing director of Byteback Publishing and back in, we'd been friends for a while

1:22.0

because we were doing Sky newspaper reviews. I used to watch you. Thank you.

1:33.4

And so he had this, he had the idea, actually, to be fair to him.

1:41.0

Back in, I think, about 2016, when he said, of course, 2018 is 100 years since some women got the vote, and significantly for this, since women were enabled to stand for Parliament.

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