A woman called sun approached gillian duffy on the street and said, are you labor? She said, of course, i'm labor. And she said, would you like to meet the prime minister? Do you think absolutely. I think it's one of the big political moments of the last sort of 15 to 20 years. This is during the 20 ten general election campaign, when gordon bown was prime minister. Brown is trying to hold on to power, but clearly the new labor years are coming to an end. Shes also raises student debt, neglecting in in her home town, a national debt, and so on. After brown had lost the election and resigned,
Jason Cowley is Editor of British political weekly, The New Statesman. He’s also an author and his latest book, Who Are We Now? Stories of Modern England, is a timely reflection on the identity of his home nation. The book follows both individual stories of everyday life and the broad arc of national politics over the past 25 years spanning the ascent of the Tony Blair government to Tory austerity, Brexit and the pandemic. Hosting the discussion is Kavita Puri, journalist, broadcaster and author of the book and radio programme, Partition Voices, which explores issues of identity within the British Asian community.
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