The Trawl Meets: Clive Lewis
The Trawl
Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss
4.6 • 708 Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Clive Lewis is the Labour MP for Norwich South and takes a bold stance in areas like water privatisation, the NHS, welfare, wealth taxes and Palestine. They discuss how he feels about the direction the Labour party has taken, and what it was like to make an anti-monarchy statement when he was sworn in as an MP.
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| 0:46.5 | Hello and welcome to The Trawle Meets. |
| 0:51.3 | I'm Marina Perkis. |
| 0:52.4 | And I'm Gemma Forte. |
| 0:53.5 | And on The Trawle Meats, Marina and I get to chat with somebody we admire and find interesting. And of course, we'll discuss political topics that they are passionate about. Our guest today has served in the military and toured Afghanistan in 2009, but is most well known as being the Labour MP for Norwich South since 2015. |
| 1:14.2 | He was also a candidate for leader of the Labour Party in 2020 up against Kirstama. |
| 1:20.1 | Indeed. And he is a trawl favourite for his bold stance in areas like water privatisation, |
| 1:26.3 | the NHS, welfare, wealth taxes and Palestine. Please welcome Clive Lewis. Hello. Thank you. It's like a political this is your life, isn't it? It is a bit, actually. Yeah, we should have some kind of... You should have that music going on the background. Some kind of red book for you to take away at the end. Right, before we do kick off, we're just going to play in a nice |
| 1:44.4 | little aperitif of a clip that was enjoyed by many people. When you were asked on BBC Politics |
| 1:50.8 | Live what you would like to hear from former Prime Minister, Boris Johnson. What would you like |
| 1:56.5 | to hear from him, Clive? Remember what time, what time we're on? That he's one of the millionaire |
| 2:00.2 | tax exiles |
| 2:01.0 | that's leaving the country. Perhaps that will be a good piece of news. I mean, look, I'm not sure |
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