Neal Lawson

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349 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 24 Jul

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then you're not going to roll back the frontiers of 40 years of neoliberalism.

And I guess that's the question.

And then the question is, how do you do that?

Can you just do it from the steps of Downing Street, or do you need something much bigger and broader?

It's big and it's important.

And he's reframed the debate.

And that's, you know, if he does little else, which I'm sure he will do, you know, many other things, that is incredibly welcome.

The fact that someone stands on the steps of Downing Street and says they're going to do that.

I was talking to a kind of Corbynite earlier today who said that they can't remember Jeremy Corbyn actually making a statement as bold as that.

that he was going to take that kind of big stance, rolling back 40 years of fetterism.

So it is remarkable that he said it.

He's absolutely right to say it.

Now we've got to think about, you know, what is the intellectual and organisational wherewithal to do it?

And we'll talk about that just after this.

Well, I think to Matt, again, this is another worry.

Um,

is that it does look nostalgic.

It does look returnism.

It's like the 1970s were wonderful.

And rightly, Andy talks about his youth in 1970s on the edge of Liverpool, secure job, secure housing, good education.

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