Louise Haigh
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373 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
Louise Haigh’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's not an easy thing to do at all.
And
I look at the way Angela Rayner has been treated over the last few years.
I look at the things that are said about Rachel Reeves.
I've had the last eighteen months as a backbencher
being able to come to terms with some of that and focus on the things that matter in the constituency and not have to deal with that daily scrutiny.
I look at Angela, who is also similarly a backbencher, but still subject to the same level of scrutiny and I don't I genuinely don't know how they're still standing.
They are incredibly resilient and incredibly compressive.
So of course I worry about the pressure and the scrutiny.
family.
So my granddad was in the FBU uh the Fire Brigades Union.
The Fire Brigades Union, sorry you keep on keep on uh spelling out my acronyms for me.
Which was actually even more interesting that he was in the Fire Brigades Union because he'd actually lost a leg in the Second World War.
He was a Royal Marine Commando and he lost his leg charging a a machine gun nest in northern Italy.
But then he went on he he lived in Chesterfield, which is not far from where we are now, uh and he he worked in the fire service and was in the
The FBU.
My mum's brother, as well as that was my mum's dad.
My mum's brother was a minor who was on strike in the 8485 strike.
So there was politics kind of very much in the background, in the extended family growing up, but I actually never grew up around party politics at all.
I couldn't tell you that anyone particularly around my my youth was a member of a political party.
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