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Politics Unpacked

Jeremy Corbyn special

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2015

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Tim Montgomerie is joined by Philip Collins, Oliver Kamm and Libby Purves.Philip CollinsLet's skip the bit where commentators ingeniously invent reasons why Corbyn might turn out to be Clement Attlee. No, this is man of no interesting ideas and no experience of running a political operation. He has started as he is condemned to go on. In chaos. The task for the sensible Labour party is to renew intellectually and engage the new members who will rapidly have buyer's remorse. Oliver KammIn the 48 hours since Corbyn's election, I have dramatically changed my opinion. Yet again the great Phil Collins is vindicated.I've previously argued there's an ethical obligation on Labour MPs to withdraw cooperation from the whips and declare themselves opposed to a leader who is out of step with party's traditions & progressive values. Yet I hadn't reckoned on the scale of the incompetence of Corbyn & his allies. You can hold on as leader even in the face of bad polls; but it's much more difficult to do so if...

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Welcome to the Times Opinion Podcast. My name is Tim Montgomery and this week we have a

1:06.8

Jeremy Corbyn special so if you are already bored of labour politics turn off

1:12.2

now but three people who are most certainly not

1:15.3

bored but energized in different ways are three of my fellow columnists Phil

1:20.6

Collins Oliver Cam and Libby Purvis. And here are the topics we'll be discussing.

1:27.0

Let's skip the bit where commentators ingeniously invent reasons why Corbin might turn out to be Clement Attley. No, this is a man of no interesting

1:34.6

ideas and no experience of running a political operation. He has started as he is condemned to go on,

1:40.3

in chaos. The task for the sensible Labour Party is to renew intellectually

1:44.3

and to engage the new members who will rapidly have buyer's remorse.

1:48.0

In the 48 hours following Corbyn's election, I dramatically changed my own opinion and came very

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