The Luciana Berger One
Political Thinking with Nick Robinson
BBC
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2019
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
The Independent MP on the trauma of leaving Labour, the stresses of facing anti-Semitism and the difficult process of forging a new political force
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:05.3 | Who will be next? |
| 0:07.1 | What will they be called? |
| 0:08.8 | Who will be the leader? |
| 0:10.6 | What are they actually believing? |
| 0:13.1 | Are they simply the none of the above? |
| 0:16.2 | The questions have mounted, as the independent group soon to be a party has dominated politics |
| 0:23.0 | this week. |
| 0:24.0 | And who better to answer at least some of those questions than the first woman to speak |
| 0:30.4 | at their first news conference. |
| 0:32.7 | Former Labour MP Luciana Berger, who's my guest on the Political Thinking Podcast this week. |
| 0:38.8 | I don't still think that it's really, that it's really sunkey and actually, because it |
| 0:43.6 | is such a massive decision and just to even make that decision, it comes at the end of |
| 0:49.0 | a very long decision making process, a very long journey, you just decide it one moment |
| 0:54.2 | it's a painful thing to have done. |
| 0:56.7 | If you're new to Political Thinking, this is the podcast that tries to provide real political |
| 1:02.1 | conversation to get beneath what's really going on. |
| 1:06.7 | Much more from Luciana in just a few minutes. |
| 1:10.2 | At another time with different political leaders, you could imagine the Prime Minister or the |
| 1:15.4 | leader of the opposition rushing to the dispatch box or to the microphones and cameras to try |
| 1:22.8 | to define what's happening in politics to try and get control of events. |
| 1:28.6 | Not with Theresa May, not with Jeremy Corbyn. |
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