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Politics Unpacked

Lessons in a landslide: Margaret McDonagh

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Lessons in a landslide: 20 years after New LabourA Red Box podcast series of interviews with all of the key players in the 1997 campaign, and their fears for the future of the party.Margaret McDonagh, the campaign co-ordinator, on the birth of the pledge card, rowing with John Prescott in a cinema and the panic of MPs who had been unexpectedly elected.

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0:00.0

This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats.

0:11.0

So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's.

0:15.0

Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app.

0:20.0

Just imagine what your best Christmas ever would sound like.

0:23.5

Thank you for calling National Lottery and I can see you calling about a winner today, is that correct?

0:27.5

Yeah, I think I have. I should take a double check for the car wheel.

0:31.0

Yeah, I can confirm that you have won the top prize 1.2 million.

0:35.0

Oh my word! Happy Christmas! Why do you know?

0:39.0

You have the best Christmas ever.

0:41.0

I got a hair thing.

0:42.0

This Christmas, it could be you.

0:44.0

The National Lottery.

0:46.0

Rules and procedures apply.

0:48.0

Players must be 18 or over. Hello and welcome to the Red Box Politics Podcast in The Times, I'm Matt Surely.

1:01.7

A looming general election, a party on the verge of a historic landslide, a leader

1:06.0

with an iron-like grip on message discipline waging war on complacency. Sound familiar.

1:16.0

A new dawn has broken, I don't have.

1:28.0

Education, and education and education. Tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime. A politics of courage and honesty and trust.

1:38.0

Welcome to Lessons and a Landslide, an exclusive Red Box podcast series to mark 20 years since New Labour swept to power.

1:44.4

In interviews with all of the key players in the 1997 campaign, recorded before Theresa May triggered

1:50.0

her snap election, we discuss life on the political front line and the behind

1:54.3

the scenes battles between Labour's big beasts. In this episode I speak to Margaret

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