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Political Thinking with Nick Robinson

The Lisa Nandy Levelling Up One

Political Thinking with Nick Robinson

BBC

Politics, News

4.62.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Nick Robinson talks to Lisa Nandy, the shadow levelling up secretary, about preparing for government, the political lessons she's learned from football and whether she disagrees with Keir Starmer's stance on strikes.

Transcript

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Hello and welcome to political thinking. And boy, there's quite a lot of politics

0:57.6

to think about, isn't there? All the drama about this government, maths though,

1:03.4

a dramatic shift in our politics. It has become the conventional wisdom overnight

1:09.2

that Labour will win the next election. The polling suggests there's been a

1:13.8

greater swing in recent days and weeks than there was during the last worst

1:18.0

financial crisis to hit a Conservative government, Black Wednesday, back in 1992.

1:23.8

And that'll mean there will pretty soon be much greater scrutiny of what Labour

1:28.4

will do, faced with the same economic fundamentals, high taxes, high borrowing,

1:34.1

high inflation and low growth. If Labour does indeed win an election, Lisa Nandy

1:40.2

will be the cabinet minister with the job of delivering for what's become known

1:44.0

as the red wall, northern industrial towns like Wiggin in Lancashire, which she

1:49.3

represents and which she says has changed her politics. A politics learned at the

1:55.2

near-of-a-grandfather who was a Liberal MP and a father who was who is a famous

2:00.8

Marxist academic. Political thinking is a conversation with not an

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