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Political Thinking with Nick Robinson

The Jon Lansman One

Political Thinking with Nick Robinson

BBC

Politics, News

4.62.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Jon Lansman talks to Nick about where Momentum could be taking the Labour party.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the BBC.

0:03.6

Hello and welcome back to Political Thinking.

0:05.5

We've been off for a few weeks, but we are going to stay with this podcast,

0:09.9

which if you've heard it before, you'll know, but if you haven't, you won't.

0:12.7

The idea is to hear some conversations about politics,

0:16.8

to hear my reflections, to hear those of my guests,

0:20.2

in a way that you might not hear anywhere else.

0:23.2

This week is an example of that.

0:25.4

John Lansman is a man you don't often hear from.

0:28.8

He's the guy who founded Momentum,

0:31.0

the campaign group that helped Jeremy Corbyn,

0:33.8

to get control of the Labour Party,

0:36.0

and now is helping him to keep it.

0:38.8

If we want to shift power and wealth to the many from the few,

0:45.5

then we are going to come up against the few.

0:48.4

I think we have to be prepared.

0:50.5

More from John Lansman coming up.

0:52.9

One of the big things that's been on my mind this week

0:56.3

is how to deal with this new world in which we're dealing,

0:59.2

not just with big political parties,

1:01.6

not just with one or two big broadcasters,

1:04.8

but with the huge range of voices that we get in politics,

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