Why Labour should embrace patriotism
Chopper's Politics
The Telegraph
4.2 • 864 Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2022
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
It's a week of pageantry, parties and platinum pudding for Her Majesty's Jubilee, so Christopher Hope decided to call up the Shadow Justice Secretary, Labour's Steve Reed, to talk about Labour's relationship to patriotism. The MP for Croydon North tells Chris that Labour's relationship to national pride under Jeremy Corbyn was 'an aberration', that some unease might come from confusing narrow nationalism with patriotism and why he believes that he's patriotic because he's Labour, not despite it.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on chopper's politics, patriotism and labour go together for me and those who disconnect them, I disagree with them and I think where you know you pointed to |
| 0:13.8 | what happened under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership for me that was an |
| 0:16.0 | aberration. I hate the fact that people might think the Labour Party is not |
| 0:18.9 | patriotic it is just disgusting. Her Majesty returned to the Chair of a State to take the Coronation Oath, at which |
| 0:40.4 | the Sovereign undertakes to govern according to the respective laws and customs of all peoples under the crown. |
| 0:47.0 | Madam, is your majesty willing to take the oath? |
| 0:52.0 | I am willing. |
| 0:54.0 | Yes, this is the week. |
| 0:56.0 | Yes, this is the week when we can stop thinking about politics just for a bit and |
| 1:08.0 | instead reflect on our Queen's 70 years on the throne. I'm Christa Hope, the Associate Editor for Politics at |
| 1:16.3 | the Jelly Telegraph and this is Chopper's Politics. Yes this week's episode is a |
| 1:22.2 | short one for you listeners before the country heads into a weekend of pageantry parties and platinum pudding for Her Majesty's platinum Jubilee. And sticking with that theme I thought it was the perfect |
| 1:35.9 | moment to call up Steve Reed, Labor MP for Croydon North and Shadow Justice |
| 1:41.3 | Secretary. And Steve is keen for his Labour colleagues to perhaps be a little less queasy |
| 1:47.0 | about the kind of packageism we're seeing this week. |
| 1:50.0 | Steve Reed Shadow Justice Secretary, thank you for joining us on Chophos Politics. |
| 1:55.0 | Great to have you on a big week. |
| 1:57.0 | Yes, a very important week for us. |
| 1:59.0 | It's the Queen's Platinum Jubilee coming up this weekend and the whole country is going to be joining the Queen in celebrating her 70 years of service to our country on the throne and people living in my street as in many streets across |
| 2:16.1 | the country are throwing a party to celebrate this and celebrate who we are as a country as |
| 2:20.9 | well as to celebrate her achievement and her record of service. |
| 2:24.3 | And you yourself Steve are organising your own street party? |
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