Rosie Duffield on MPs' safety and feeling abandoned by Labour
Chopper's Politics
The Telegraph
4.2 • 864 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Labour MP Rosie Duffield joins Christopher Hope at his favourite table at the Red Lion pub for a frank discussion on the realities of being a politician. She opens up on why she doesn't feel supported by her party following a distressing harassment campaign, and tells us whether she's tempted to defect to another altogether.
Also on the podcast: Tory donor and businessman Johnny Leavesley tells us why Boris Johnson needs to 'get a grip', and whether current turbulence in Downing Street will see him tightening his purse strings. And Conservative MP for West Wiltshire, Andrew Murrison, on why he's leading a new All Party Parliamentary Group to scrutinise the National Trust.
'Boris deserves one more chance. But if he doesn't get a grip soon, he must go' by Johnny Leavesley: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/02/11/boris-deserves-one-chance-doesnt-get-grip-soon-must-go/ |
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Chopper's politics. |
| 0:05.0 | It's tempting to go somewhere where you don't have to battle a tiny faction of your own membership. |
| 0:10.0 | That would be a nice idea, but how do I square Brexit? How do I square immigration? |
| 0:16.2 | There are issues that I can't really imagine agreeing with the tourism. |
| 0:21.0 | I mean I'm a labour person, I shouldn't be having to feel like this. |
| 0:26.3 | Hello and welcome to Chopper's politics. I'm Christopher Hope, the Telegraph's Associate Editor. |
| 0:36.2 | Now it's easy, given the past month, to think that roused about sparking wine at work and what is or isn't a party, is all that Westminster's focus on at the moment. |
| 0:45.3 | That of course isn't the case. |
| 0:47.9 | So this week I wanted to kick off the podcast with a slightly different conversation. Now recently Labor MP Rosie Duffield, she |
| 0:56.5 | represented Canterbury, tweeted that she was considering her future in the party very carefully. After a lack of support for her against what she called |
| 1:05.8 | obsessive harassment online is obviously a sensitive subject for Rosie but I'm so |
| 1:11.6 | glad that after some thought she agreed to join me in the Red Lion |
| 1:15.2 | pub to discuss social media, whether she would advise young people to become MPs, given |
| 1:21.3 | her experiences, and indeed her future in the Labour Party. |
| 1:27.0 | Rosie Duffield, Labour MP for Canterbury, welcome to chopper's politics. |
| 1:31.0 | Great to have you in the pub. |
| 1:32.0 | It's very nice to be here. |
| 1:33.6 | Not too bad, is it? |
| 1:34.3 | A bit of a grim day. |
| 1:35.3 | But it's nice to be not in Parliament. |
| 1:37.4 | Yes. |
| 1:38.0 | How are you doing? |
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