The Tory Who Exposed The Truth
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
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🗓️ 16 February 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
This lifelong Tory has spoken the truth. Iain Anderson is a Tory donor who has been a party member for nearly 4 decades. He's friends with Liz Truss and Michael Gove. Now he's left the party - and in doing so, he's told a key truth, in fact one of the biggest truths of British politics - without which you can't understand it.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tory who told the truth. |
| 0:02.3 | Now, Ed Anderson is a Tory businessman and a long-standing Tory donor. |
| 0:07.2 | He's actually been a member of the party for nearly four decades. |
| 0:10.9 | Now, his personal friends were Liz Truss, someone's got to be, hey. |
| 0:14.9 | And in fact, Liz Truss lauded his considerable experience working with a range of businesses. |
| 0:20.7 | Also friends with Michael Gove. |
| 0:23.5 | Now, Boris Johnson made him the government's LGBTQ business champion last year. |
| 0:29.0 | L.D. here before that, but last year he quit that role as relations between |
| 0:32.5 | the LGBTQ community and the Tories have collapsed. |
| 0:35.0 | And now, this week, he has quit the Conservatives as well. |
| 0:39.4 | But the reason I want to talk about him is he said, |
| 0:42.0 | one of the most important truths in British politics, |
| 0:46.2 | without which you cannot understand British politics at all. |
| 0:50.2 | As the financial ties which interviewed him reports, |
| 0:52.5 | Keeta's decision to abandon the Tories now is his belief based on discussions with party insiders |
| 0:57.5 | that Prime Minister Rishi Senak will ramp up the so-called culture wars |
| 1:00.7 | as a central part of his 2024 election strategy. |
| 1:04.1 | Addison said it was made pretty clear the plan is to run a culture wall to distract |
| 1:07.9 | from fundamental economic failings. |
| 1:09.6 | It's not something I want to be part of. |
| 1:11.6 | Now, throughout our history, this is what the Conservatives do. |
| 1:16.0 | You can't understand the Conservatives without this eternal truth, |
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