Show 255 - Ayesha Hazarika
The Political Party
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I Think It Was a Mistake to Talk About Class
I think it was a wider malas about using that word, because they thought it would evoke memories of the labor party in the 19 eighties and class war. And also, like the new labor project had very much sent out a message saying, we're different from what's gone before. I remember being in a room about gender pegap and just been shouted at by lots of senior politicians and their advisers going, do not give an inch on the gender pegap. So i think we did become very, very frightened of, i think, what stuff we knew we can have wanted to do. But i think because we had been in power for such a long time, and we had
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