Show 277 - *Lisa Nandy LIVE*
The Political Party
The Political Party
4.8 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2022
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
If you want to know why Lisa Nandy is one of Labour's most popular politicians, you're about to find out. Naturally funny, deeply heartfelt and razor sharp, this is everything you want from a Political Party episode. She shares her frustration with 'Levelling Up', the hilarious story of reshuffle day and, of course, her love of towns. Best enjoyed with a can of Holsten Pils.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the political party. Today's guest is Lisa Nandy, the shadow secretary's |
| 0:14.5 | date for leveling up and this episode has everything you would want from the ideal political |
| 0:19.2 | party episodes, some really funny silly stuff as well as very heartfelt, very thoughtful |
| 0:25.6 | and very intelligent political analysis. So it's all in there as you would expect from |
| 0:30.0 | Lisa Nandy. I should thank people by the way who email me, political party podcast at gmail.com, |
| 0:36.7 | not just with the usual topic of strange and unusual places you've seen politicians and |
| 0:43.2 | guest suggestions, but people are just getting to various things. A guy called Matt Walker |
| 0:49.2 | is quite in touch. He lives in Wellington, New Zealand. He's always nice to know where |
| 0:53.8 | people listen. So thanks. Let me know that Matt. He's also, he's made his own fantasy cabinet. |
| 1:01.3 | So I just thought I'd share it with you because I thought it was quite interesting. He said |
| 1:04.3 | he's half compiled a fantasy cabinet of my political crushes. In fact, he says before that, |
| 1:09.1 | do you want to know something impossibly sad? Matt, I don't think this is sad at all. I'll |
| 1:13.0 | be amazed if anyone listening to this show thinks it's sad. I think everyone will think it's cool. |
| 1:17.8 | Anyway, I'm just going to share it with you because I thought it was quite an interesting mix. |
| 1:21.9 | Education, Michael Portillo, health, Nye Bevan, defense, Nicholas Somes, foreign secretary, |
| 1:29.3 | Paddy Ashtown, home office, William Hague, Chancellor, Ken Clark, deputy prime minister, Neil |
| 1:35.3 | Kinneck, prime minister, Ruth Davidson, and just for fun, I'll make Margaret that you achieve |
| 1:41.2 | whip. Oh, my word. I love the fact that he's just done that and said, good on you, Matt, thank you very |
| 1:46.8 | much. So don't feel you just have to get in touch and let me know strange places you've seen |
| 1:50.8 | politicians. It can be literally about this political party podcast at Gmail.com. |
| 1:55.7 | Thank you for all of you who continue to come and see me on tour. I mean, exit at this Sunday |
| 2:00.5 | and then, oh, I'm terrible at this. I mean, I'm doing a few nights at London, so her theatre, |
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