85. Lisa Nandy: Making Britain a cultural superpower

Leading

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Politics, Government, News

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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What responsibilities will Lisa Nandy take on as the new Secretary of State for Culture, Media, and Sport? Why was this the most toxic election campaign she has fought? How has the importance of Britain's soft power evolved post-Brexit? Rory and Alastair are joined by Lisa Nandy to discuss all this and more. TRIP Plus: Become a member of The Rest Is Politics Plus to support the podcast, receive our exclusive newsletter, enjoy ad-free listening to both TRIP and Leading, benefit from discount book prices on titles mentioned on the pod, join our Discord chatroom, and receive early access to live show tickets and Question Time episodes. Just head to therestispolitics.com to sign up, or start a free trial today on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/therestispolitics. TRIP TOUR: To buy tickets for our October Tour, just head to www.therestispolitics.com Instagram: @restispolitics Twitter: @RestIsPolitics Email: [email protected] Video Editor: Teo Ayodeji-Ansell Social Producer: Jess Kidson Assistant Producer: Fiona Douglas Producer: Nicole Maslen Senior Producer: Dom Johnson Head of Content: Tom Whiter Exec Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:20.0	Welcome to the Restis Politics. Welcome to the Restis Politics leading with me Rory Stewart and me
0:23.7	Alisto Campbell and we've got our first serving member of the new Labour
0:30.4	Government cabinet Lisa Nis and Andy.
0:34.0	Now the last time Labour came to power,
0:36.0	Lisa and Andy didn't even have a vote.
0:38.0	She was 17.
0:39.0	And then when she became an MP in 2010,
0:42.0	that was the year that the new Labour government was coming to an end.
0:45.9	So she's been an MP for 14 years, plenty of ups and downs, we'll talk about some of those,
0:51.5	but I guess most importantly has never ever seen a Labour government and now is part
0:57.2	of that government and an interesting and perhaps surprising way because Thangam Debenaire
1:01.7	as we talked about in the podcast last week didn't win her seat so one of the first decisions
1:06.3	Kias Tharma had to make was to who to appoint to culture media and sport so welcome the Secretary of State for culture media and sport. So welcome the Secretary of State for Culture media and sport.
1:15.0	I think those two words, Labour government will never get old. It's so brilliant to be here
1:20.3	but it's mostly brilliant because for 14 years I've been going round and
1:25.2	round in circles in the House of Commons losing votes and losing arguments and
1:30.1	a couple of days ago I opened that great big red folder and saw the words for decision and thought my God we can change people's life.
1:38.0	So we've got some decisions to make about the euros 2028. We've got to make sure that we crack on and ensure that it delivers for every single part of the United Kingdom.
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