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The Owen Jones Podcast

Rory Stewart Defends Jeremy Corbyn

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Rory Stewart is a pin up for centrist dads everywhere - and his defence of Jeremy Corbyn is going to have them frothing, to say the least. But what he says needs to be heard carefully.

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0:00.0

Oof, well, centuries-tats of crime, how aren't they?

0:03.4

One of their icons, the former Conservative cabinet minister, Roy Stewart,

0:07.1

has stated an intervention which is going to have a lot of people with FPP in their Twitter bios

0:11.9

forthing to put it gently.

0:14.2

Now, in an interview with Navarra's Ashaka, he made this defence of, wait for it,

0:19.7

Jeremy Corbyn, have a listen.

0:21.8

I want to move on from Jeremy Corbyn, but I mean it's kind of striking that he's another 2019 casualty, right?

0:28.8

Incidentally, I think it's disgusting he was throwing out a Labour party.

0:31.7

Just as I also think it was pretty peculiar that Boris Johnson kicked out

0:35.9

two-chancellistics checker, six cabinet ministers, Winston Churchill's grandson,

0:39.6

and the rest of us out of the Conservative party, I mean, it's mad.

0:43.1

Jeremy Corbyn, whatever you think of him, is a major figure who represents a very significant part

0:49.1

of Labour history in heritage. He was the leader of the party.

0:51.7

Why do you think his time I did it?

0:53.8

I think he is running a very controlling business with about three or four people

0:58.6

trying to micromanage the Labour party.

1:00.4

I think he lacks confidence.

1:02.9

I mean, I believe in politics as being about embracing difference and compromise

1:14.9

and persuasion and conversations amongst different people.

1:17.6

I was proud to be in debates on Afghanistan with Jeremy Corbyn.

1:22.8

I listened to him carefully.

1:25.0

Paul Flynn, I like so much.

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