Daily: ED MILIBAND – “Big forces not bacon sandwiches decide elections”

The Bunker

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🗓️ 24 June 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Former Labour leader Ed Miliband has reinvented himself since 2015 as a podcaster with his hit series Reasons To Be Cheerful, and re-entered frontbencher politics as Shadow Business Secretary. But he has big ideas. He talks to Dorian Lynskey about his new book Go Big: How To Fix Our World, why the real issues that shape the future are bigger than Westminster, plus the “Preston Revolution”, the future roads that Labour should take… and his encyclopaedic knowledge of (wait for it) Dallas. “COVID showed that our institutions and the way our country is run is so at odds with who we are as a people.” “As Labour leader you’re constantly thinking, is what I say going to blow up into a story? I think I was too cautious.” “Brexit was a big idea. You can say it wasn’t the RIGHT idea. But people responded to it. People do want big change.” Presented by Dorian Lynskey. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:12.4	Doncaster North, leader of the Labour Party between 2010 and 2015,
1:15.7	and currently Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
1:19.8	Since 2017 he's co-hosted the hit podcast Reasons to be Cheerful with Jeff Lloyd
1:24.0	which has inspired his new book Go Big how to fix our world.
1:27.1	Hi Ed thanks for joining me.
1:28.3	Well thank you very much for having me and thank you for being so nice about my
1:31.7	whole cost. Well you say that this is not the book that you would have written in 2015 so it do you credit
1:39.5	the doing the podcast with a sort of sort of major change in your in your thinking.
1:43.7	Podcasts have transformative effects we know we know that from yours.
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