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So to pull the curtain back, as we often say we try and do on the newsagents, this was the episode that we were going to put out on Friday.

And it was all ready to go, but then came the breaking news that the Princess of Wales had cancer. So we, of course,

did the episode we did on Friday, which hopefully you've already heard, but we thought this was

such an interesting conversation and subject that we wanted to bring you the episode anyway.

So this is a special bonus edition, Sunday edition, of the Newsagents. We hope you enjoy it.

This is a global player original podcast. I've always been a labour guy. My family's been

labour for generations. I joined the party at the age of 15 and I voted for them under every

single leader in the 21 years of my adult life. But for me, the party's over, and I've just quit.

That was the journalist, political writer, on-off, Labour Insider, Owen Jones,

announcing to his fans, enemies, and there are plenty of both,

that he was breaking a near 25-year habit.

He was leaving the Labour Party.

Jones is a really interesting figure. He's a journalist, a writer,

with a political core, which is, I think, irreducible. He has clarity. He has fervour. He has zeal. He has

certainty. A lot of it. He has also been a deeply influential figure in Labour politics for a long time.

First, as an almost sole voice of the

left in the wilderness New Labour years, articulating a type of politics which had almost been

forgotten. And then in the Corbin era, he became even powerful, someone who was on the outside,

but also inside too, a strategist, someone articulating Corbinism to an often hostile political world,

someone who often had more political nowse than some of those advising the leader and the man

himself. He's got a big following and his resignation and suggestion that he would be involved

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