Live Special: Have we reached peak Corbyn?
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2018
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Recorded live at the Labour party conference in Liverpool, the panel debate whether Jeremy Corbyn can inspire an electorate and turn the last election's gains in to a majority or whether his peak will be remembered as a song on a Glastonbury hillside.
To find an answer Matt Chorley is joined by former Corbyn spokesman Matt Zarb-Cousin, author of "Comrade Corbyn" Rosa Prince and Times columnists Rachel Sylvester and Jenni Russell.
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| 0:45.0 | avante west coast feel good travel Hello and welcome to the Red Box Politics Podcast on the Times. I'm Matt Chorley at a |
| 1:00.6 | special live podcast recorded in Liverpool. |
| 1:03.4 | In this special episode, |
| 1:11.8 | recorded while the Labour Party Congress is going on in Liverpool, |
| 1:14.4 | we're asking the question, have we reached Peak Corbyn? |
| 1:18.6 | Can Jeremy Corbyn build on the unexpected success at the general election last year to go on to become Prime Minister |
| 1:25.0 | or is it all downhill from here? |
| 1:27.9 | Joining me on the panel, we've got Matt Zard Cousin, former spokesman for Jeremy Corbyn, |
| 1:31.9 | Rachel Sylvester, Times columnist and Jenny Russell, Times columnist, |
| 1:35.2 | and Rosa Prince, biographer of both Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn, who can maybe compare the two |
| 1:41.3 | leaders the potential of both of them to basically muck it up over the next |
| 1:44.8 | couple of years. Welcome to you all. Let's start with you, Matt. You worked for Jeremy Corbyn for some time |
| 1:52.0 | in the run before the 2017 election. |
| 1:55.0 | Explain a bit about what you expected to happen in the election, what then did happen, |
| 1:59.0 | and how you think you might be able to build on that. |
| 2:01.0 | Well, I think, oh I actually expected the polls would swing a lot to |
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