Macron, Angela Rayner, Misogyny and Class
The News Agents
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🗓️ 10 June 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Angela Rayner has told Lewis she carries the weight of working class women on her shoulders, and doesn't ever want to be the Labour Leader.
Meanwhile in Paris, President Macron has thrown caution to the wind and 'done a Rishi'. He's called a snap parliamentary election to take on the party of Marine Le Pen. How should centrist leaders tackle their Far right parties? By bringing their policies into the fold - or defeating them and shutting them down? Does either really work?
And in London, Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey pledges to put social care at the heart of his manifesto to 'Save the NHS'.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.5 | Can we give a big Macclesfield welcome to the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, Angela Rainer. |
| 0:20.0 | Thank you so much. That is the sound of a lot of happy warriors, of a party, of a group of activists who think they are on the up and on the advance. |
| 0:31.6 | Labour activists who believe that they might, just might, be on the verge of a once-in-a-generation election. |
| 0:40.6 | We're in McEltsville, in Bucolic, Leifie Cheshire, a Tory town since forever, |
| 0:45.0 | with perhaps the fiercest Labour warrior of them all. |
| 0:48.2 | Deputy leader Angela Rainer, who is in town today with our battle bus, which we are about to get on. |
| 0:53.7 | And today, she is speaking exclusively with the newsagents about the campaign so far, |
| 0:58.9 | the Friday debate, about life, about living life with a permanent political target on your back, |
| 1:05.3 | about what a working class woman from Manchester might do if in just three and a half weeks time, she becomes deputy |
| 1:12.4 | prime minister. Welcome to the newsagents. The news agents. It's Emily. And it's Lewis in |
| 1:21.5 | Macclesfield. And in a moment, we will be talking about the far right in Europe. And that |
| 1:26.7 | poker game decision by Emmanuel Macron, |
| 1:29.3 | the French president, last night to call a snap general election to try and seize back the |
| 1:35.1 | centre ground. That's all to come. But first, Lewis has been on a bus trip. You've been on a bus, |
| 1:40.3 | love? I have, love. I have. I've been on Angela Rainer's bus, although it wasn't really a |
| 1:45.0 | trip. We literally just stayed in one position outside McElesville Town Hall for about 30 minutes, |
| 1:50.7 | but we were indeed on the bus. And we've come to McElftesville. It's telling that she's in |
| 1:55.2 | McElwalesfield at all campaigning in the area around here. I mean, Macclesfield, people don't know, it's a little bit like, as we were in the sort of seat yesterday of Alteringham in Greater Manchester, McEltsville in Cheshire, absolutely |
| 2:05.2 | true blue conservative seat has been forever. Last time it wasn't conservative was 1910. It's got a majority |
| 2:10.8 | of over 10,000. But Labor feel really buoyant in all of these absolute conservative heartlands. |
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