Clive Lewis: On Liz Truss, proportional representation, Keir Starmer and the Green New Deal
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Owen Jones
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🗓️ 28 September 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Is it all over for the Labour left? Clive Lewis is one of its leading lights, and a tireless fighter for causes such as climate justice and proportional representation. He joined me live at Labour Conference to talk over the Tories' catastrophic implosion - and where Labour goes now.
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, it's like a it's a big old burning skip in some ways. No, look let's start |
| 0:05.0 | I mean the Tories are in the right. Let's start with the Tories actually the Tories |
| 0:07.8 | Liz Truss |
| 0:09.2 | Whenever you get a new leader some people like well, you know give them the benefit of the doubt |
| 0:13.3 | Maybe I mean she's |
| 0:15.2 | Catastasia is absolute catastrophe |
| 0:17.4 | They're in meltdown the economy is in meltdown |
| 0:20.0 | Some I say it's in the back for the Labour party now. No, it's not it's not in the bag |
| 0:24.1 | And I don't I think I don't think anyone in the part. I know people are confident |
| 0:28.1 | But I don't think anyone is it's going to be complacent enough to think that not if you understand |
| 0:33.2 | Electro history and the fact that the Tories are one three times as many elections as Labour |
| 0:37.7 | So you've got an electoral system stacked against you the media |
| 0:42.0 | You've got a jury with voting system |
| 0:45.0 | You've got you know the electoral commission now looking at boundaries that I like to change for the next election |
| 0:49.7 | It's stacked against Labour |
| 0:52.4 | And obviously you know there are certain things we're discussing at conference today PR one of them |
| 0:57.2 | We'll talk about that. We'll talk about that |
| 0:59.2 | But I think in terms of this trust don't write them off |
| 1:02.0 | I mean they are backed by the British establishment of this country a multi billion pound |
| 1:07.5 | mega industry and they will not let that go easily so I think you know |
| 1:12.4 | Whilst we have a you know a lot to look forward to in terms of Labour being able to potentially |
| 1:19.0 | Form an administration possibly a minority administration. That's now within grasp |
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