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Political Thinking with Nick Robinson

The Andy Burnham One

Political Thinking with Nick Robinson

BBC

News, Politics

4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The Mayor of Greater Manchester on why he blames social media for losing to Jeremy Corbyn and growing up in Manchester but never losing his Merseyside roots.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the BBC.

0:05.0

I'm sitting in what remains of the BBC's conference studio

0:09.0

around me, men are taking down walls,

0:12.0

they're removing desks, they are unplugging computers.

0:15.0

The roadshow is about to move,

0:18.0

to Birmingham for the Tory conference.

0:21.0

And with Rudeh's something rather curious has happened.

0:24.0

An idea once seen as absurd, implausible,

0:29.0

pretty unappealing to many, looks rather different.

0:33.0

The idea is Prime Minister Corbyn,

0:36.0

looks at the end of this Labour conference week.

0:39.0

Possible, plausible, and to many, quite attractive.

0:44.0

So that when we meet this time next year,

0:48.0

let it be as a Labour government.

0:52.0

This Jeremy Corbyn really believes there's going to be

0:56.0

a general election and one soon,

0:59.0

not many around him seem to,

1:01.0

but having his party in permanent campaign mode

1:05.0

is a brilliant way of securing his control of Labour.

1:09.0

It is, in other words, a win-win.

1:12.0

If there is an election, he and his party can say they're ready for it.

1:16.0

If there isn't, the Corbyn Revolution,

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