Show 331. Siobhain McDonagh
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4.8 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
This is a ray of sunshine for the ears. Siobhain isn't just positive, she is inspiringly pragmatic.
A Labour MP since 1 May 1997 and a passionate Blairite, she stayed in the party during its darkest period and is now hopeful of a Labour victory at the next election.
This is about more than politics. It's about life and what it's about.
Siobhain's sister, Margaret, was the General Secretary of the party during its most successful period and is revered across politics. She sadly passed away last year. As well as raising awareness about brain cancer, Siobhain is also raising money for the UCLH Charity.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the political party today's guest is |
| 0:15.4 | Chivon McDonough, Dane Chivon McDonough, the Labor |
| 0:18.2 | MP for Mitcham and Morden since the 1st of May 1997. |
| 0:22.2 | She is on the progressive wing of the Labour Party, Blair |
| 0:25.4 | right. We talk about that and so many other things, not just about her life and |
| 0:29.9 | career, her sister Margaret McDonough, who was the General Secretary of the Labour Party, she sadly passed |
| 0:34.8 | away last year and the work that Chivon is doing to raise awareness of brain cancer and |
| 0:39.3 | rare brain cancer. |
| 0:41.0 | But about life, and what your approach to life is. This is one of those wonderful |
| 0:47.3 | conversations that we talk about politics and there's so much great stuff in here but also just what's your approach to life? |
| 0:55.1 | Maybe I am becoming a bit more philosophical after everything that's happened |
| 1:00.3 | but this becomes a far deeper conversation about all sorts of things and it is an absolute |
| 1:04.8 | pleasure and chivalve on is a national treasure this this is just class and from someone who is so |
| 1:11.2 | impressive because she's never lost that stamina for wanting to get things |
| 1:17.1 | changed for the better and really animated about tackling the problems we face as a society and what a tireless campaign as she is. |
| 1:27.0 | This is wonderful. |
| 1:28.0 | So I will shut up and you can enjoy Chivon McDonough. When I was just looking at the history of Mitcham and Morden and the elections there, now you were elected on the 1st of May 1997, which obviously is a date, see it in the minds of Labour people and many people in the country. |
| 1:52.0 | But you had stood for that seat twice before, so 10 years |
| 1:56.0 | of standing for election in that constituency before you got elected. |
| 1:59.0 | What I didn't appreciate was the presence of the national front over quite a sustained period in that |
| 2:07.4 | seat. I mean when you first stood in 1987 what was the tone of that election |
| 2:12.1 | like? |
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