Helen Lewis
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1,139 appearances
8 recordings
6 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 24 Jun
Helen Lewis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And there was a very, very good bit of sort of soft diplomacy after that, where he was brought immediately over to London, I think on the way back before he'd even gone home.
And there was an embrace in Downing Street from Keir Starmer.
And then he was sent around to have tea with the king.
Do you remember?
And I just thought at that point, that's, you know, there's some class in that.
So that bit impressed me.
I would agree with that.
And he did it efficiently and he did it quickly as well.
I mean, that was essentially what Neil Kinnock's job was over sort of 10 years in charge of the Labour Party.
He was getting rid of militant and the trots and the tankies and all that kind of element.
They came back in and were purged, to use the phrase, very, very quickly and effectively by Starmer.
Exactly.
In a way, I was relieved by that result because I think the worst possible result for Andy Burnham would have been if the combined reform and restore vote had been above what he got.
And it was comprehensively below.
It was 13 points below that combined vote.
Right, he didn't just squeak a win.
Farage didn't get to say, oh, well, we would have got it if it wasn't for these upstarts coming in on the even further right win.
It was a very, very definitive victory for Andy Burnham.
Yeah, I mean, it's not great.
I had a look at the statistics on this.
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