Will Corbyn get his revenge?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 28 March 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Jeremy Corbyn will not be allowed to stand for Labour at the next election. That’s despite the fact he’s been an MP in Islington North since 1983 and led Labour at two general elections- nothing like it has ever happened before.
Jon and Lewis explain why Labour’s ruling body has made the move and why Labour’s left might not be as weak as you might think.
And the News Agents are joined by a secret agent, or at least someone, who was.
Sir Richard Dearlove was the head of MI6 during the Iraq War.
Twenty years on we talk to him about how he and his fellow intelligence officers got it so catastrophically wrong on Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction (or lack thereof), whether or not he regrets the invasion and how life is different for young spooks, today.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Global Player Original podcast. |
| 0:05.9 | Jeremy Corbyn is known for very many things. |
| 0:09.2 | Parliamentarian, protester, campaigner, star of the pyramid stage, former leader of the Labour Party, |
| 0:18.2 | and also, possibly, one of the grumpiest old men ever. |
| 0:22.5 | Can we just very quickly ask you if you're thinking of standing as an independent, Mr. Corby? |
| 0:25.7 | Thank you very much. I'm going to the demonstration against the immigration bill, and I suggest |
| 0:28.9 | you report that too. We are reporting it. It will take ten seconds. |
| 0:32.1 | Can I just ask you for... I'll afford to see you over there. Thank you very much. |
| 0:35.6 | I just want to talk to you for ten seconds about your future as a Labour MP. Thank you very much. |
| 0:39.3 | We're not offering any more coming in this time. Sorry. Thank you very much. |
| 0:41.8 | Why don't you want to talk about it? It's been in the news today you've put out a statement. |
| 0:45.4 | Thank you very much. Lots of people really want to hear about your future as the Lake Grumpy. you're from? We're from Sky News. I told you as I was walking up to you. No, you didn't tell me that. I did. But maybe he's got something to be grumpy about. Because today, the Labour Party |
| 0:59.0 | National Executive Committee at NEC, its ruling body, has decreed that the man who has stood in his |
| 1:05.8 | seat for Labour since 1983, who led them into not just the last, but the last two general elections |
| 1:13.1 | will not be allowed to stand again for the party. We have never seen anything quite like it |
| 1:19.8 | before. And the big question is, is he going to accept the verdict or might he run as an independent. Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:33.6 | The newsagents. It's Lewis. It's John back in Newsagents HQ. The good news, everybody, as you can |
| 1:40.8 | tell, is that the vigil works, the prayers work. The petition, which all 16 of you signed to get John back into the studio today has been successful, and the |
| 1:48.7 | midnight mass that Pope Francis did conduct last night has worked. And he's back in, he's |
| 1:53.2 | battled his way through to be back in the studio with us. Obviously, if Lewis is infected |
| 1:57.1 | tomorrow, he'll be less happy to see me than he is right now. Look, later in the show, |
| 2:02.1 | fascinating interview coming up with none other than the former head of our intelligence |
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