SHOW 93 - The Independent Group (Live)

Matt Forde's Political Party

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4.7 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2019

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Welcome to this special, bonus live episode with 4 members of the newly formed Independent Group: Ann Coffey, Mike Gapes, Heidi Allen and Chuka Umunna. They all recently left the Labour and Conservative parties to sit together in the House of Commons. In these hilarious and at times emotional interviews, they reveal why they came to their individual decisions, what the future of the group is and what will set them apart from other political parties. Oh and what they had at Nando's. You can find out more about The Independent Group on their website: theindependent.group You can follow the group on Twitter here: @TheIndGroup You can follow Ann on Twitter here: @anncoffey_mp You can follow Mike on Twitter here: @MikeGapes You can follow Heidi on Twitter here: @heidiallen75 You can follow Chuka on Twitter here: @ChukaUmunna Email the show: politicalpartypodcast@gmail.com Matt's 'Brexit Through The Gift Shop' tour continues nationwide and has added extra dates: 7 March: London - Southbank Centre 8 March: Stafford 12 March: London - Southbank Centre 14 March: Cambridge 15 March: Corby 19 March: London - The Other Palace 26 March: London - Leicester Square Theatre 31 March: Bristol 5 April: Faversham 9 May: *** EXTRA DATE ADDED*** Salford Lowry 10 May: Aberystwyth 12 May: Edinburgh Stand 13 May: Glasgow Stand 14 May: Newcastle Stand 18 May: Chorley 25 May: *** EXTRA DATE ADDED *** Camberley Theatre Tickets available at www.mattforde.com/live

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0:59.2	The format is obviously something we haven't done before at the political party.
1:02.1	We're just having two sets of interviews, interviewing four people in the evening.
1:05.3	But it worked very well.
1:06.8	The atmosphere was very different because, as within a way, the Scottish independent
1:13.2	specials in June, Edinburgh in 2014, you're talking about something that is happening live
1:19.7	in front of you.
1:21.0	It's not, obviously, in some regard, it's retrospective, but this new group is being
1:24.8	formed and we're finding out about it for the first time.
1:27.6	And someway through these interviews, so the reasons why the four of them left their
1:31.8	parties, what their ambitions for the future are, what the problems might be in setting up
1:36.6	a new political party, what they're having common, what they don't.
1:39.4	All these questions that we all have desperate frances to, but on top of that, there is just
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