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Welcome to Political Thinking, a conversation with rather than an interrogation of someone

who shapes our political thinking about what has shaped theirs.

Do you remember when a politician who promised to borrow tens of billions of pounds to rescue

the country without spelling out where they get all the money was accused of being irresponsible,

being reckless of finding a magic money tree?

That man was Jeremy Corbyn and he's my guest this week.

He was of course leader of the Labour Party.

These days he's not even a Labour MP after Keir Starmer expelled him from the Parliamentary

Party.

But what will be clear in next week's Labour conference is he remains the leader of the

left.

Jeremy Corbyn, welcome to Political Thinking.

Thanks for inviting me on.

Do you still feel like a kind of recovering ex-leader of the opposition?

Do you miss any of it or are you just relishing your freedom again?

I miss not having the opportunity obviously who wouldn't.

But I'm busy as I've always been doing lots of campaigns, lots of events and so on.

My diary is pretty packed up like it's always been.

So that's not that big a check?

No, no.

It means that I don't have to attend every event that goes on around the place.

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