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Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Lord Michael Heseltine

Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Global

Society & Culture

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Former Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party, Lord Michael Heseltine, gives a searing account of his life and times in Politics. 'Ashamed' to be part of the generation that orchestrated Brexit, his is a stark warning against the current Tory party, gripped by the 'narrative of Farage' and invaded by Trumpism. Ahead of this week's general election, this is a must-listen.

Transcript

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0:00.0

If it wasn't for that moment, Alex and Sam wouldn't be lost in their favourite track at the club.

0:07.0

They wouldn't have shared that electric night front row at a music festival.

0:12.0

Or bonded over techno records talking all night long until the sun came up.

0:17.0

If it wasn't for that moment, when they were both scrolling on Tinder, and suddenly,

0:22.7

a relationship starts every three seconds on Tinder. Download now, it starts with a swipe.

0:30.1

This is a global original podcast.

0:36.1

Hello and welcome to the very latest episode of Full Disclosure with me, James O'Brien,

0:40.6

a podcast project conceived chiefly as an opportunity for me to get rather longer time than is ordinarily available

0:47.4

with people that I find interesting, ideally people I've never met before.

0:51.3

And my guest this week fits into all of those categories. Michael,

0:55.0

now Lord Heseltine, a Tory Grandi, or sort of a Tory Grandi, we'll move on to the technicalities of

1:01.8

that a little later. But oddly, Michael, I was hoping, I did my A-level politics project on the

1:09.8

Westland Affair, and I was hoping when I finally got to meetlevel politics project on the Westland affair, and I was hoping

1:11.1

when I finally got to meet you that we could just have a very leisurely survey of the rearview

1:17.2

mirror. Quite the opposite, actually. You're heavily focused on the road ahead, largely because

1:22.4

of the parlous state of UK politics. Later today, this podcast will be released on Monday, two or three days hence,

1:31.3

but later today, you'll be on a stage where a former Conservative Prime Minister,

1:36.5

John Major, will essentially urge people not to return a Conservative Prime Minister to Downey Street.

1:42.6

Is it possible to exaggerate how unprecedented this playing field is now?

1:48.1

Not in recent history, and I know of no precedent at all,

1:53.5

but it is an indication of the gravity of the situation

1:57.1

and the enormity of the decision that is about to be taken in the ensuing election.

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