George: Any one who claims to be on the left and is an anti semite has got no place on a left irecognise. I belong to what i would call a sort of green democratic, rather woolly left. It's still recognizably left but you don't have to tow any particular party line to call yourself 'left winger' The idea that there should be any such intolerance in a party that calls itself left wing,. it's been blown up a bit out of proportion. George: Freedom is something which has been absolutely fundamental to left wing politics. And its had to be extracted painfully out of the cold, dead hands of those who denied freedom to the great majority
The political Left often purports that it has society’s best interests at heart and that it works for the good of all. Yet according to conservatives, it is precisely that self-regard, that attempt to monopolise virtue, which exposes the hypocrisy of left-wing ideology. In this archive debate from 2018, we gathered Labour MP Stella Creasy, environmental campaigner, journalist and author, George Monbiot, Conservative MP Kwasi Kwarteng, and the leading philosopher of conservative thought, the late Roger Scruton, who sadly passed away in 2020, to discuss the issue of right vs left. Our host for the discussion was the journalist, broadcaster, visiting lecturer and Professor in the Humanities Council at Princeton University, Razia Iqbal.
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