Leader of the Opposition: Episode 7
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Last year, to mark 300 years since Robert Walpole became Prime Minister, Matt Chorley learnt about every PM through history each week. This year, Nigel Fletcher from the Centre for Opposition Studies has gone through every Leader of the Opposition and as a festive treat you'll be able to listen to each episode on the podcast this week
In this episode, George Lansbury, James Maxton, Hastings Lees-Smith and Frederick Pethick-Lawrence.
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| 0:00.0 | Picture this, static cars, idling engines, angry horns, now picture you, zooming past |
| 0:12.4 | it all, light and breezy, ah, the sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic. |
| 0:21.0 | Make your train journey via vantewescoast.co.uk, a vantewescoast, feel good travel. |
| 0:51.0 | We round it up every Prime Minister with Andrew Jimson and in 2022, Nigel Fletcher from the |
| 0:56.1 | Centre for Opposition Studies has been telling us about every lead of the opposition who |
| 1:00.2 | crucially never made it to number 10, from Charles James Fox all the way through to Keir |
| 1:05.5 | Starma, so let's could only then hit the montage. |
| 1:26.5 | This time every week we are counting down a different lead of the opposition with a little |
| 1:32.1 | bit of help from Nigel Fletcher from the Centre for Opposition Studies who joined me now. |
| 1:39.1 | Well this week we have George Lansbury and I put a bit of a quiz on Twitter just now. |
| 1:46.1 | If anyone could get the link between this week through the opposition and bagpuss and the |
| 1:53.1 | clangers, I don't know if you have managed to work that one out. |
| 1:56.1 | No, I saw you suggest it. So what is the connection between George Lansbury, |
| 2:01.1 | Labour leader of the opposition, 1935 and the clangers? |
| 2:05.1 | Well the connection is and I have to tip my hat to Tom Hamilton on Twitter who actually got |
| 2:10.1 | this straight away, which I think is deeply sad. |
| 2:13.1 | But he mostly guessed correctly that the link is that all of a post date who created not only |
| 2:19.1 | the clangers but bagpuss and over the engine was the grandson of George Lansbury. |
| 2:25.1 | And it is saying quite something that he is not even the most famous grandchild of George Lansbury |
| 2:32.1 | because another one is of course Angela Lansbury. |
| 2:34.1 | Well that was going to be my next question. So is Angela Lansbury related to George Lansbury? |
| 2:38.1 | Absolutely, yes, she is his granddaughter. |
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