Matthew Parris

Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Global

Arts, Society & Culture

4.5 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Having worked as an MP under Margaret Thatcher, Matthew Parris shook the political hemisphere when he announced he was voting Liberal Democrat in the recent general election. A man of principle, his disdain of Brexit has never been a secret, and he willfully sold his Conservative roots to preserve his principles. So what caused this change of heart? And how does he feel about the looming, but steadily nearing, 31st January?

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0:00.0	This is a global original podcast.
0:09.7	Hello and welcome to the latest edition of Full Disclosure, a project designed chiefly to
0:14.9	allow me, James O'Brien, to spend a little bit more time than is ordinarily available with
0:18.8	people that I've long admired. And that is a
0:21.6	category into which the journalist and broadcaster and former member of Parliament, Matthew Paris,
0:27.0	slots all too easily. Matthew, thank you for joining us. You're just remembered as I do that
0:32.9	introduction that, of course, you present great lives yourself. And I'd like you to think of full
0:37.3	disclosure as a great lives of people who are great lives yourself. And I'd like you to think of full disclosure
0:37.8	as a great lives of people who are still with us.
0:42.3	Great lives is for heroes.
0:44.2	I'm not a hero.
0:45.2	You're a hero of mine, actually.
0:46.5	I don't have many left.
0:48.1	I certainly don't have many that have ever sat on conservative benches,
0:50.8	but we're getting ahead of ourselves.
0:52.7	That was a long time ago.
0:53.9	Indeed it was, chronologically and possibly ideologically as well.
0:57.7	But let's begin at the beginning.
0:59.3	You were born in South Africa to English parents, siblings, three brothers, two sisters.
1:06.1	A sort of life that no longer exists, really.
1:08.5	Was it a colonial idyll?
1:10.4	Not really. No. Like Tony Blair's
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