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Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

Ed Miliband-Ideas and Leadership ..And Is D Cummings on the left?

Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

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Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.7909 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Ed Miliband discusses some of the ideas in his new book 'Go Big' and why he feels freer to express his thoughts now compared with when he was Labour leader...Plus reflections on Dominic Cummings...and your latest questions on Labour's future, G7 and T Blair's foreign policyRock N Roll Politics is live at Kings Place on Monday June 28th:https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/?kw=2021-06-28

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0:00.0

I'm Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the weekly podcast with me, Steve Richards.

0:33.6

Thank you very much for tuning in wherever you are around the world. We're kind of global these days.

0:41.5

Dubai, Australia, cooking olive recipes in Portugal while listening to the podcast and much more besides and of course the whole of the UK.

0:50.7

And we have got so much to cram in in our time together today. We're going to have a conversation

0:57.9

shortly with Ed Miliband. We don't often have interviews on this podcast. It's usually just

1:03.6

us a lot reflecting on all the dramas and trying to make sense of them and place them into

1:09.5

context. But occasionally we have a conversation and this one is a really interesting one.

1:15.7

Ed Miliband has a book out called Go Big and he reflects about his hunger for big ideas,

1:23.7

putting it into the context of leadership and all the other things that have happened to him.

1:29.3

So we're going to have that very shortly.

1:32.0

After that, my reflections on Dominic Cummings, your reflections on Dominic Cummings, some brilliant questions.

1:38.4

Some great questions about the Labour Party.

1:40.6

A couple of them came in just as I was recording the podcast last week, so we'll

1:45.0

be hearing those and some other questions as well, the G7 and all kinds of things. And a question

1:51.5

from somebody having a challenging A-level essay and wants our help. Good luck with that.

2:04.5

Anyway, before all of that, just a reminder, if you don't mind,

2:11.6

that the live show, my one-man show Rock and Roll Politics, is live at King's Place on June the 28th.

2:18.2

Yes, at King's Place in the main concert hall. Tickets are going fast, so do book for that. They're on the Kings Place website. I'll put a link on the blurb for the podcast. But if you can't get to it,

2:24.7

I mean, you've got no excuse if you live in the UK, you can fly in or drive from wherever

2:30.3

to get there. But if you are in kind of Dubai, I can understand, it's a bit difficult.

2:36.1

It will be streamed live as well and I'll be taking streamed questions as well as those

2:41.5

live from the audience. And yeah, and in July, going back to the Greenwich Theatre, had a great

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