Nick Thomas Symonds on Clem Attlee, Keir Starmer and Brexit

Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

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Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.6 • 825 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Steve Richards speaks to the Labour shadow cabinet member and historian Nick Thomas Symonds. Nick has revised his biography of the former Prime Minister Clement Attlee and included an introduction from Keir Starmer, but can Starmer emulate Attlee? Nick also has responsibility for negotiating a 'better Brexit', Steve asks him how can this be achieved? Support Rock N Roll Politics on Patreon and get exclusive benefits including bonus episodes and much more: https://www.patreon.com/RockNRollPolitics Rock N Roll Politics is live at Kings Place on October 23rd. Tickets here: https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/words/rock-n-roll-politics-10/ Steve Richards' book 'Turning Points' is available here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Turning-Points-Crisis-Change-Britain/dp/1035015358/ref=sr_1_3?qid=1695642519&refinements=p_27%3ASteve+Richards&s=books&sr=1-3 Nick Thomas Symonds' book Attlee: A Life in Politics will be available later this month: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Attlee-Life-Politics-Nicklaus-Thomas-Symonds-dp-0755636139/dp/0755636139/ref=dp_ob_title_bk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the podcast with me, Steve Richards.
0:13.0	Thanks so much for tuning in.
0:15.3	Now, you know what I'm going to say, we've got a lot to cram in in our time together.
0:19.6	In a minute, I'm going to be in a discussion with
0:22.2	the shadow cabinet member, Nick Thomas Simmons, who's got a book out. I was going to say a new book.
0:28.7	It's a reissue with a new introduction from Nick and from Keir Stama on Clemately.
0:42.6	And of course, it's fascinating and I was going to say an act of mischievous provocation to put out a biography of Clem Atley on the eve of an election where
0:50.0	many think Labour are going to win. And as I've got a book out at the moment on turning points
0:56.1	in modern Britain, which begins in 1945, I thought it would be interesting to have a conversation
1:01.7	with Nick about Atley. He now has, as part of his new brief in the shadow cabinet, the Brexit
1:08.8	remit. He will be the one responsible for negotiating in
1:13.6	inverted commas a better Brexit and ask him about that and Kier Stama and so on. So we'll be hearing
1:20.4	that discussion in a moment before that. And oh yeah, a few of your questions as well, probably
1:26.4	not as many as usual because we're
1:28.9	going to focus on this conversation.
1:31.3	But, you know, there's going to be a lot of time in the next few weeks to get through.
1:33.9	And they've been fantastic and really interesting.
1:37.1	But we'll get to a few of those after our conversation.
1:40.8	Before all of that, a couple of notices.
1:43.3	For Patreon subscribers, you will now have your bonus podcast for September.
1:49.0	It's a new series on political rivalries, as suggested by a member of the Rock and Roll Politics Cooperative, Stuart Grant.
1:57.5	And he came up with this idea.
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