Show 257 - Tina Stowell (Baroness Stowell of Beeston)
Matt Forde's Political Party
The Political Party
4.7 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2021
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
How does a working class girl from Nottingham end up being Leader of the House of Lords? Tina Stowell isn't your stereotypical Baroness and as well as rising to one of the highest offices in the land has also worked closely with some major figures at big moments in recent history. This is full of gems including what it was like inside Number 10 working for John Major and her time as Head of Comms to the BBC Trust during the Hutton Inquiry. Tina is passionate about opportunity and has written an essay for the Social Market Foundation about the education divide. You can find the link to that below.
Follow Tina on Twitter: @tinastowell
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the political party. Today's guest is Tina Stoll, also known as Baroness |
| 0:16.4 | Stoll of Beaston, former leader of the House of Lords, but also the jobs that Tina has |
| 0:22.4 | done and the story she has about working for John Major in sign number 10, working for |
| 0:26.6 | William Hade when he was lived with the opposition, being head of comms from the BBC Trust |
| 0:30.8 | during the Hutton report. My word are you in for a treat. Before that, don't forget you can email |
| 0:35.6 | the show, politicalpartypodcast.gmail.com and it can be anything, by the way, it could be a guest |
| 0:40.1 | suggestion, it could be particularly if you work for a politician where you are one or you think |
| 0:44.7 | someone might be good or in any way you can help getting such political partypodcast.gmail.com. |
| 0:50.1 | But as regular listeners will know, this thread of the hat, politicians you've seen, |
| 0:56.1 | in unusual places, or just any weird and county you've had with them. |
| 1:02.0 | Josh gets in touch. He said in 2011 I was at Darlington station waiting for a train home to Edinburgh. |
| 1:07.2 | I queued up at the Busy Station Cafe, I know the exact one, Josh, when I realised the person |
| 1:12.0 | directly in front of me was the then Labour leader Ed Miliband. He ordered his coffees for him and |
| 1:16.8 | his team when an awkward situation occurred. Josh, I can see this coming a mile off. He didn't |
| 1:22.1 | have any money on him. I remind you, Gordon Brown on budget day. He didn't have any money on him. |
| 1:26.6 | Some desperate patting of his jacket and trousers pocket still didn't produce the necessary |
| 1:30.2 | funds. He didn't give a frantic look and shout over his team. But they didn't see or hear him. |
| 1:35.4 | I was about to offer to pay for his coffees when an older gentleman jumped in with the card. |
| 1:39.3 | Very generously took care of the payments. However, that's not the end of the story. |
| 1:45.2 | I looked at the man who paid for the coffees. It was Neil Kinneck. This is astonishing. |
| 1:51.9 | It's always Neil Kinneck. Of all the emails we get, I would say half now are sightings of |
| 1:58.4 | Neil Kinneck. Very elegantly. Don't forget, you can see Neil Kinneck live at the Duchess |
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