Episode 85: UK Labour's John McDonnell — Is Strasbourg tearing MEP families apart?

EU Confidential

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4.4 • 175 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

This week's feature interview is a 15-minute highlight reel from John McDonnell's already famous interview with POLITICO's London Playbook editor Jack Blanchard. In addition to discussing Brexit next steps and Labour's anti-Semitism challenges, the U.K. shadow chancellor landed himself in hot water by describing Britain's wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill as a "villain" for sending in the army to tackle a miners' strike in 1910. The question now: Did McDonnell successfully tackle a taboo, or simply prove that the current Labour opposition is unelectable? The podcast panel of Alva Finn, and POLITICO's new Paris correspondent Rym Momtaz, advise an anonymous MEP who wrote to POLITICO to say that the pressure of living and working in three cities (their home city, Brussels and Strasbourg) is tearing families apart. To continue the family theme, we also discuss Viktor Orbán's new policy in Hungary: exempting the mothers of four or more children from income tax. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:04.0	Hey everyone. Welcome back to EU Confidential. I'm your host, Ryan Heath, the political editor at Politico Europe, and you're listening
1:14.4	to the number one EU politics podcast.
1:17.2	In this week's episode, we crossed the channel back to London, where Jack Blanchard, the author
1:21.6	of Politico's London Playbook newsletter, interviews John Macdonnell in a now infamous interview.
1:27.3	John Macdonnell is the shadow chancellor of the UK.
1:30.3	He wants to be the treasurer of the country if the Labour Party can throw out the government of Theresa May.
1:36.3	And in an interview that has caused a lot of backlash and debate in the UK, he describes Winston Churchill as a villain.
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