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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Labour Leadership Hopeful, Jess Phillips, is taking your calls

James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Global

News, Daily News

4.3914 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2020

⏱️ 143 minutes

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Summary

A busy day in Westminster is unfolding as the Labour Leadership hopefuls have until 2:30PM to secure enough nominations to make the ballot. Clive Lewis and Emily Thornberry are trailing behind the four candidates who have successfully gone through to the next round. One such candidate, Labour Leadership hopeful, Jess Phillips, joins James O'Brien in studio this morning to take your calls. Also: more of the fallout from Megxit, and as protests rage in Tehran, we'll hear from an expert in the field who'll talk you through the unfolding tensions. This is a catchup version of James O'Brien's live, daily show on LBC. Listen live, weekdays 10AM-1PM and join the conversation: 0345 60 60 973

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0:00.0

This is LBC from Global, leading Britain's conversation with James O'Brien.

0:14.1

Three minutes after ten is a time. A very good morning to you.

0:18.4

11 o'clock today, Jess Phillips, will be here, one of the contenders for

0:22.7

the Labour leadership.

0:24.3

One of the most interesting politicians

0:26.1

to emerge in Britain in recent years,

0:28.1

but I have lots of questions to ask her,

0:30.1

but I'll probably get other opportunities

0:31.5

to interview her.

0:33.4

So I'd rather take yours.

0:35.5

Don't dial in now, but be aware, I'll give you a call to arms at about 10 to 11, and there will be.

0:42.4

I mean, it does exactly what it says on the tin.

0:45.3

It will be an opportunity to put your question directly to her.

0:50.9

Drawn to the tale of Extinction Rebellion being prescribed as a terrorist group, but even as I say those words, and I have read the coverage, I wonder whether there's perhaps a little bit more to it than meets the eye. We shall find out a grim tale, a really grim tale that you may have picked up in some of your papers at the weekend. Surgeons are performing virginity repair operations on young women to give the impression that they are pure on their wedding nights.

1:13.6

It always reminds me a chronicle of a death foretold by Gabrielle Garthia Marquez stories like this.

1:19.6

They're not confined, obviously, through history to any community or cultural religion.

1:26.6

If you couldn't display, I don't know if you knew this, it's

1:29.3

pretty grim actually, you might want to look away briefly. If you couldn't display a blood-stained

1:33.6

sheet on the morning after your wedding night in some Catholic Christian cultures, then

1:38.7

marriage could sort of be called off, or certainly the groom would have grounds for demanding justice.

1:50.0

Five minutes after ten.

1:52.1

And we begin, as we must, with Prince Harry and his wife, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.

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