Jeremy Vine

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Newscast · Old Newscast: How Labour Won In 1997 (Part 1) · 25 Jul 2026 podcast

And one of the stories that happened was that Alan Clark, kind of very...

not dissident, but let's just say unusual MP, had given a fringe event where he said, of course, the solution to the situation in Northern Ireland is just shoot 600 people in one night.

And the US, UN would make a fuss about it, but the problem would be over for 30 years.

And the whole room applauds.

And the Conservative HQ said,

are in such disarray, they actually have to deny its official policy.

So I thought, this is going to be a long road back.

And I'm watching Kemi Badenoch to see, can she skip the night shift?

Really interesting.

I think we're there now.

The joy of being a political correspondent then in the Westminster lobby was this, that month after month, I hadn't realised if you've got 650 mainly men who are quite old in a room, i.e.

the House of Commons, you've got quite an attrition rate.

You've got people keeling over.

And John Major had one squeaked a majority in 92 and gradually he went into a minus.

Yeah.

And you're then governing as a minority party.

And wheeling in people from hospital to vote.

And using the Ulster Unionists and whatever.

Jim Molyneux, you know.

So we had a thing at the weekend.

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