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Show 314 - David Aaronovitch

The Political Party

CHAPTER

The Roughest Calculation in Politics

I sacrifice the lot in the short term, but what I hope will happen in the longer term is to get through this phase. During a lot of the Corbyn era, he and Hillary Ben were almost the only hopes you had left within the Labour party. He was dreadful. He took over. You know, when you lose the leadership of something you lose everything really like losing the presidency. It's no kind of halfway house there. And once you're out,. the other side's people come in in spades, etc. The student loans pledge was always going to have to be reneged on. I wrote it before Nick Clegg made this infamous promise that before the 2010 election,

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