Show 357. Iain McNicol
Matt Forde's Political Party
The Political Party
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🗓️ 30 September 2024
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Iain McNicol
This. Is. Class.
Iain was General Secretary of the Labour Party from 2011 to 2018.
He tells us what it was like having to run the party during the most tumultuous time in its history.
You'll be hanging on his every word.
SEE Matt at on tour until March 2025, including his 2 extra dates at The Bloomsbury Theatre: https://www.mattforde.com/live-shows
2024
31 July - 25 August: Edinburgh, The Pleasance
2 October: Norwich Playhouse
3 October: Maidenhead, Norden Farm
9 October: Middlesbrough, The Crypt
10 October: London, Leicester Square Theatre
24 October: Hull, Truck Theatre
6 November: Exeter, Phoenix
8 November: Tunbridge Wells, Trinity Theatre
14 November: Basingstoke, The Haymarket
15 November: Colchester Arts Centre
20 November: York, The Crescent
21 November: Chorley, Little Theatre
22 November: Salford, The Lowry
27 November: Chipping Norton Theatre
28 November: Leicester, Y Theatre
29 November: Eastleigh, The Berry
31 November: Faversham, The Alexander Centre
6 December: London, Bloomsbury Theatre
14 December: London, Bloomsbury Theatre
2025
4 February: Leeds, City Varieties
5 February: Sheffield, The Leadmill
6 February: Chelmsford Theatre
7 February: Bedford, The Quarry Theatre
12 February: Bath, Komedia
13 February: Southend, Palace Theatre
16 February: Cambridge, The Junction
20 February: Nottingham, Lakeside Arts
23 February: Brighton, Komedoa
25 February: Cardiff, Glee Club
26 February: Bury St Edmunds, Theatre Royal
2 March: Bristol, Tobacco Factory
11 March: Aberdeen, Lemon Tree
12 March: Glasgow, Glee Club
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the political party. Today's guest is Ian McNickle. Lord McNickle, |
| 0:17.0 | most famous for his time as General Secretary of the Labour Party from 2011 to 2018. |
| 0:22.0 | What an incredible period in labor history that was and we talk about it in detail here, |
| 0:28.6 | but as we sort of realized towards the end, we need to do maybe a few more episodes because there's so much more to talk about |
| 0:35.5 | Just to let you know obviously my tour starts this week in Norwich and goes all the way through to March. I'm adding some extra dates because a lot of the dates |
| 0:44.6 | have already sold out. |
| 0:45.3 | So I've added another date at the Bloomsbury Theatre. |
| 0:48.0 | So I'm doing Leicester Square. |
| 0:50.1 | I'm doing Bloomsbury on the 6th of December |
| 0:51.9 | and again on the 14th of December so tickets for that second date are on sale now and all dates you can click on the link in the blurb or just go to mapford.com and all dates are available there so I'm doing |
| 1:04.6 | an extra night on top of the already extra night I'm doing at the Bloomsbury |
| 1:08.4 | theatre on Saturday the 14th of December and going nationwide so So on to today's guest Ian McNickle |
| 1:15.0 | takes over as General Secretary of the Labour Party in 2011. So Labour have just |
| 1:18.7 | lost the general election in 2010. It comes in Labour in many polls, the favorites to win in 2015 in the run up to that election. |
| 1:26.4 | And oh my word, all the things that happen before and after that election. |
| 1:31.1 | And this is an incredible inside account of what it was like to be running |
| 1:35.8 | the Labour Party through the 2015 election, the aftermath, the Corbyn years years the way staff were treated what it was like to be |
| 1:46.0 | staff during that period I mean it was just Ian's a phenomenal talker and he's got a |
| 1:50.2 | great voice he is brilliant to listen to. But this is a remarkable account. I mean you almost |
| 1:56.5 | can't believe it now. When you look at the late party now in government, it's actually incredible that it was |
| 2:00.9 | just a few years ago that all this stuff was happening and he's just |
| 2:04.3 | been to conference so we begin by talking about that. |
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