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Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

The Return of The Truss Era

Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

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News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.7909 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

The Liz Truss era resumes at breakneck speed. How should Labour respond? In this week's podcast, I reflect on the lessons of Harold Wilson's much-overlooked leadership with Nick Thomas-Symonds, shadow International Trade Secretary and author of Harold Wilson - The Winner. Plus, brilliant questions on the monarch and much more. Rock & Roll Politics is live - and streaming - this Thursday at Kings Place. Tickets available at kingsplace.co.uk Email me and the Rock & Roll Politics Co-operative: steveric14@icloud.com Subscribe to Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/RockNRollPolitics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

You know what that is.

0:04.0

An ice cold beer.

0:07.0

What's different?

0:09.0

It's Budweiser.

0:11.0

Food longer for a refreshing, smooth taste.

0:15.0

Like no other.

0:20.0

Cheers to that. Budweiser, like no other Cheers to that

0:22.6

Budweiser

0:23.6

Like no other

0:25.6

Please drink responsibly

0:26.6

For the facts visit drinkaware.co.

0:28.6

com.

0:29.6

U.K The

0:40.3

The Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the weekly podcast with me, Steve Richards.

1:04.7

Thank you so much for tuning in, wherever you are in the UK, and indeed, around the rest of the world. And as ever, we've got a lot

1:13.4

to cram in in our time together. This is what we're going to do if it's okay with all of you.

1:20.6

I'm going to issue a couple of notices at the beginning to our rock and roll politics,

1:25.8

cooperative and community. We're then going to

1:29.0

reflect on the leadership of Harold Wilson, a figure who has been weirdly sort of airbrushed out

1:38.7

of history in some respect, certainly compared with many other prime ministers. And then we've got some brilliant

1:45.8

questions from many of you, some of them responding to my reflections during the build-up to

1:54.0

the Queen's funeral and on other issues too. So we're going to span very widely in our time together.

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