Bonus podcast: Corbyn’s Labour Episode 3

Political Thinking with Nick Robinson

BBC

News, Politics

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In a bonus podcast for Political Thinking subscribers over the summer break, Iain Watson presents the final episode in the Radio 4 series, ‘The Long March of Corbyn’s Labour’. He examines how the party has been transformed into a mass movement and whether it can maintain momentum. Political Thinking will return in September.

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0:00.0	This is the BBC.
0:03.3	Hello, I'm Nick Robinson.
0:04.9	As we're taking a break over the summer,
0:06.6	here's a chance to listen again
0:08.3	to the Radio 4 series, The Long March of Corbyn's Labour.
0:12.0	In the final episode, my BBC colleague Ian Watson
0:15.2	examines how the party has been transformed
0:17.7	into a mass movement
0:19.2	and whether it can maintain momentum.
0:23.5	Jeremy Corbyn, 251...
0:27.4	Jeremy would be the first to admit
0:29.4	that in 2015, he probably didn't think he was going to win.
0:33.9	In fact, he probably hoped and prayed he wasn't going to win.
0:37.0	These people have been excluded from the power structure
0:39.8	they were party for so long.
0:41.2	They have spent their lives in rooms above pubs
0:44.6	talking about changing the party.
0:46.8	And finally, they've got their hands on the leaves of power.
0:50.2	Yes, for now, they're going to pull those leaves as wildly.
0:52.8	Now that he has got that absolute power,
0:55.7	what comes with that is an absolute responsibility.
0:58.6	Welcome to our party.
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