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The Owen Jones Podcast

Lord Adonis on Keir Starmer, Brexit, left-wing policies and Boris Johnson

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Lord Adonis is a passionate Remainer and centrist, and there's a lot of things we disagree on, to say the least - so we talk over why Keir Starmer's leadership is failing, whether everyone should have settled on a soft Brexit deal, the popularity of left-wing ideas, and how the country can escape the current catastrophe.


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0:00.0

Well, I was going to start by saying Lord Adonis, but you don't like me called Lord Adonis,

0:11.2

do you?

0:12.2

No, Andrew, please.

0:13.2

No.

0:14.2

I thought I might have to call you Lord Owen, and you wouldn't like that, would you?

0:17.4

When I was a kid, when David Owen, who is Lord Owen, appeared on the radio and television,

0:24.2

I did take to my parents that I thought they were talking about me.

0:27.3

So, well, in due course, Owen, it happens to most, most serious figures on the left,

0:32.0

they end up in the House of Lords.

0:33.6

What Lord Owen Jones has thought here?

0:35.2

I can't see you.

0:37.7

I want to start, Andrew, knocked off on my cap.

0:40.4

I want to start.

0:41.4

So, Keir Starman, now you did support Keir Starman in the leadership contest.

0:44.4

Why is it gone so wrong?

0:47.4

Well, he hasn't been able to hold his own so far against Boris Johnson,

0:51.4

and the question is whether he can establish a way of doing so.

0:55.6

He thinks it's because of the vaccine, and the vaccine bounced.

1:00.6

Maybe there is an element of that.

1:02.8

I mean, clearly, we have been in extraordinary circumstances for the last year.

1:07.6

I would notice that it looks as if they're going to be an election upset in Germany.

1:13.4

There was a massive upset in the United States.

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