Neil Kinnock: The Prime Minister Labour never had
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🗓️ 26 April 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Lord Neil Kinnock - Labour leader from 1983 to 1992, Thatcher's biggest rival in her pomp, joins Lewis in the studio for a sit down chat to talk about his political life, from the 1950s to Harold Wilson, his interactions with Jeremy Corbyn and his hopes, (or whether he has any doubts), about Sir Keir Starmer.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.0 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:11.9 | Margaret Thatcher wins on Thursday. I warn you not to be ordinary. |
| 0:18.5 | I warn you not to be young. I warn you not to be young. I warn you not to fall ill. And I warn you |
| 0:25.6 | not to grow old. Those were the unmistakable words, the unmistakable Welsh Lilt of Neil Kinnock. |
| 0:32.6 | Now Lord Kinnock, leader of the Labour Party from 1983 to 1992. His was a volatile, in many ways, extraordinary |
| 0:40.4 | leadership in a volatile, extraordinary time for his party and for everyone else in Britain as well. |
| 0:46.4 | He was the left-wing Welsh firebrand who reformed as he remade his party, who moved with |
| 0:52.3 | the time, said some, who betrayed his values, said others, |
| 0:55.5 | who tried to defeat Margaret Thatcher and her pomp. |
| 0:57.8 | John Major, as an apparently low ebb, yet failed against both. |
| 1:02.4 | All the same, he was credited with preparing the way to make Labour an electoral force once again. |
| 1:08.4 | After so many years in the wilderness today and with an election just around |
| 1:12.5 | the corner where Labour again could be on the verge of office, we wanted to talk to Neil Kinnock |
| 1:17.3 | in an extended conversation about his remarkable political life, about the history he's lived, |
| 1:23.2 | about the political future to the movement to which he's given his life. There will yet be. |
| 1:28.5 | It's Lewis here. |
| 1:29.6 | Welcome to the news agents. |
| 1:34.4 | The Newsagents. |
| 1:37.1 | Well, Lord Kinnock, Neil Kinnock, leader of the Labour Party from 1983 to 1992, joins us now. |
| 1:43.0 | Absolute pleasure to have you in the studio with us. |
| 1:45.6 | Lord Kinnock. |
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