Former UK Labour Deputy Leader Tom Watson Discusses How He Beat Obesity, and the Long Road Ahead for Labour

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🗓️ 14 January 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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In this episode we were joined by Tom Watson, the Deputy Leader of the UK Labour Party who only recently stood down at last year's general election. He is now the author of a new book Downsizing: How I Lost 8 Stone, Reversed My Diabetes and Regained My Health, and in this wide-ranging interview with Ros Urwin he talks about his successful battle against obesity and diabetes, what this might mean for the global obesity epidemic, and how Labour might become electable again. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.0	Hello, I'm Daniel. Welcome to this Intelligence Squared podcast. This episode is a little bit different.
1:05.7	We were joined by Tom Watson, who some of you may know was the deputy leader of the Labour Party
1:11.4	before standing down as an MP in the last general election in the UK.
1:16.7	But this interview wasn't just about politics or about the Labour Party, it was about his new book
1:21.2	which is Downsizing,
1:23.1	how I lost 8 stone, reversed my diabetes, and regained my health.
1:27.7	So it's a fascinating story of how Tom managed to basically
1:31.1	transform his life and his lifestyle in terms of losing a huge
1:34.8	amount of weight at the end of his political career. We also focused on recent
1:38.6	developments in the Labour Party, Labour's loss of the general election and the
1:42.1	forthcoming leadership
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