Kezia Dugdale
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 20 Apr
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Of course.
I don't think he's the first person that we'll be knocking on the door of, but we're not in the business of cancelling anyone.
We're not in the business of running away from hard conversations.
Quite the opposite.
I think a lot about this and a lot of it is related to trust in politics and the political process being in serious terminal decline.
So women and young people and those on low incomes are particularly distrustful of politicians and political processes and that creates a vacuum and into that vacuum has walked a global movement of populism which feeds off of people's fears rather than facts.
And into that space comes emotional, reactive, polarizing language that's really damaging.
And the more you hear it, the more tolerant you become of it and the more extreme it becomes.
Hence why we might be in a position now where some of these terms we thought that were in the past are venturing back.
So I don't think this is an issue that's solely for the LGBT community.
It's something that we all have to face up to, that women are now experiencing in the form of the rise of the manosphere and misogyny, rising intolerance towards people of different religions and ethnicities.
This is damaging for all of us, and we're barely at the races in understanding how to counter it.
I desperately hope not.
And I certainly don't think it's an immediate or pressing threat.
But I don't think it's an implausible argument now in the way that it maybe was five years ago.
And my rationale for that is, look at Italy, for example, where you see a rollback of rights for LGBT people.
It's happened pretty quickly.
It's centred around concepts of family life and the country's going backwards.
It is not beyond the realm that that could happen here.
That doesn't mean I'm sitting here telling you it's likely and it's going to happen tomorrow.
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