Lessons in a landslide: The Times 1997 team

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News, Politics, News & Politics

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🗓️ 28 April 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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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.The Times' 1997 lobby journalists Philip Webster, Jill Sherman and James Landale on the battlebuses, spin doctors, chickens, bulldogs and gay lions they found reporting on the campaign train for The Times.

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0:00.0	Just imagine what your best Christmas ever would sound like.
0:03.4	Thank you for calling National Lottery. I can see you calling about a winner today, is that correct?
0:07.4	Yeah, I think I have. I'd just take to double check before I do a cartwheel.
0:11.1	Yeah, I can confirm that you have won the top prize 1.2 million oh my
0:15.5	what happy Christmas why do now you have the best Christmas ever this, it could be you.
0:24.0	The National Lottery.
0:26.0	Rules and procedures apply.
0:28.0	Players must be 18 or over.
0:30.0	Picture this.
0:32.0	Static cars, idling engines, angry horns.
0:37.0	Now, picture you, zooming past it all, light and breezy.
0:45.0	Ah, the sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic.
0:50.0	Book your train journey via avant westcoast.co. UK.
0:55.2	avante west coast feel good travel. Hello and welcome to the Red Box Politics Podcast on the Times, I'm Matt Surely.
1:11.7	A looming general election, a party on the verge of a historic landslide,
1:15.6	a leader with an iron-like grip on message discipline waging war on complacency. Sound familiar.
1:26.0	A new dawners broken, I don't know. Education, education and education and education. education.
1:35.0	Tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime.
1:38.0	A politics of courage and honesty and trust.
1:45.0	Welcome to Lessons in a landslide, an exclusive Red Box podcast series to mark 20 years since new labor swept to power.
1:54.0	In previous episodes I've spoken to the Labor's big beasts about life on the campaign.
1:58.0	In this episode I speak to those on the other side of the fence,
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