Hello and welcome to another political party replay from the back catalogue when I recover from

surgery and phizio and whatever else is happening to me this week that I'm not aware of

because I recorded this many moons ago I don't know why it sort of slip into old-fashioned

language when I'm doing stuff like this but a while back this is from 2017 and it's the

first time Michael Hezeltine appeared on the show and I'll never forget this night because I was in the presence and we all were those of us lucky enough to be in that room of someone from a different era and not just the pre-Brexit era the pre-Blair era

I mean this Michael has a time's career stretches so far back and I the main thing I remember not just that he absolutely

looks like Michael has a such a striking impressive person but also just that

his brain was so sharp, it is completely undimmed.

He is as intense and as razor whip sharp as he's ever been and this well this is an hour in the company of

the dictionary definition of a political heavyweight enjoy. Enjoy. across the political spectrum and guests with varying degrees of experience.

Tonight's guest is someone who is a defining political character of my upbringing,

one of the most iconic politicians in post world British politics, a man who could have been

prime minister and who knows how different history would have been tonight perhaps

we'll find out. Please give a huge welcome to one of the biggest guests we've

ever had here, Michael Hazeltine. Wants' time. Well Michael, an almost, an almost, almost, uh, Corbin levels of popularity here tonight.

He absolutely got it from me. Corbin levels of popularity here tonight.

Perhaps he'd got it from me.

What do you make of the rise of Corbin?

Of him being on the brink of Downing Street? Well I never thought it would

happen and I I can understand why it's happening because across the Western

world there is this frustration of the post-2008

economic freeze. I mean people are fed up the living standards have been frozen

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