Jeremy Corbyn on strikes, Starmer and anti-Semitism
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Jeremy Corbyn’s time as Labour leader was one of the most extraordinary periods of modern politics. For a while he seemed like he’d moved the posts of politics. And yet now, he is a political ghost. He isn’t even a Labour MP.
In this wide ranging and exclusive interview, Lewis talks to the man himself, at length about the prime ministers he knew, the biggest period of industrial unrest for decades, his successor, his suspension and the anti-Semitism saga which engulfed his leadership.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.0 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.6 | I quote Shelley because he inspired like so many others do. |
| 0:20.5 | I'm proud to be at Glastonbury because it inspires so many to music festivals all over the country. |
| 0:27.7 | Let us be together and recognise another world is possible if we come together to understand that, |
| 0:36.4 | understand the power we've got and achieve that decent, |
| 0:40.3 | better society where everyone matters. Thank you for inviting me here today. I'm proud to be here. |
| 0:47.1 | Thank you very much. Last and we're going to be. It feels like a long time ago, doesn't it? |
| 1:09.1 | Those potent days of 2017, when a man well into his |
| 1:13.9 | 60s, a left-wing bearded Labour MP, few knew, came from nowhere and astounded the political world. |
| 1:22.5 | He was riding a wave, making a wave, that seized imaginations, which those peddlers of iron political |
| 1:30.6 | laws, the Westminster soothsayers, said could never have been. Jeremy Corbyn at Glastonbury |
| 1:36.9 | there, with the crowds chanting his name, redefining the art of the politically possible, |
| 1:43.7 | the parameters inside which politics sits. |
| 1:47.6 | And yet, years on, it's almost as if it never had been. |
| 1:52.3 | The Labour Left no longer controls the Labour Party. |
| 1:55.6 | Jeremy Corbyn, perhaps astoundingly, is no longer even a Labour MP. |
| 2:00.6 | That moment, that wave crashing into the sea, perhaps astoundingly, is no longer even a Labour MP. |
| 2:10.0 | That moment, that wave crashing into the sea of Brexit, Corbyn's own failings, and of all things, anti-Semitism. |
| 2:16.3 | So we thought, with the pieces largely having settled, his leadership retreating firmly into history now, |
| 2:18.9 | we should catch up at length with Jeremy Corbyn, |
| 2:22.0 | one of the now many ghosts of British politics. |
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