Gary Stevenson

I think we probably won't quite make it on this one round, although I really hope that we do.

The fact that, you know,

Tony Blair writes an article and West Streeting basically applies with tax wealth not work and essentially so does Andy Burnham and so does like the Prime Minister who seems like he hates me like I just cannot believe what we've achieved and I know we're not there yet and I don't want to celebrate before we cross the finishing line but um

You cannot allow rapid, aggressive concentration of wealth and removal of wealth from the hands of ordinary working people into elites and not expect boiling living standards.

And I've always said, and I've always believed it, if we can educate the public on that in a clear, simple way, then nobody will be able to win an election without doing something serious on wealth taxes.

that is the situation that we've got on the government in, you know, and this is why you know, that people who, you know, are maybe not ideologically aligned with wealth taxes are starting to have to say they support wealth taxes.

We've done this by educating the public.

And even though we're a long way from the finishing line here, I think it's a good opportunity to sort of step back and just

You know, especially those of you who've been watching for a long time and have been sharing these ideas and have been pushing them around and getting your friends and sending them to your mum, like I always used to say.

We've done this.

You know, we have done this here and across the world.

We've got a political party into a situation where it feels like it has to support wealth taxes.

And that is amazing.

You know, that is amazing.

Yeah, I read the book recently, just to go off on a random ending.

I got a book recommended to me by a guy called Chris Morris, who's a comedian, British comedian, who I fucking loved when I was younger.

I met him and he recommended this book to me called Bury the Chains, which is a book about the British fight against slavery back in, I think, the 1700s, might even be the 1600s.

And he spoke about how a very small amount of people, they got their heads down and they built this massive campaign that rather than lobby the politicians, spoke to the public and got the public up in arms about this one thing, which the rich kept telling them was good for them and good for their economy, which is slavery, which obviously now everybody knows was horrific.

And he sent me that book because he said, look, this might be helpful for your work.

And it was really inspiring to see how people in this country, and of course the battle against slavery was not just in this country, were willing to get their heads down and work hard for people thousands of miles away who they've maybe never seen anybody who even looked like those people.