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Sophy Ridge On Sunday

BONUS: Labour leadership debate special

Sophy Ridge On Sunday

Sky News

Politics, News, News Commentary, Government

4.2157 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In this bonus episode, listen to the best bits of the Sky News Labour leadership debate between Sir Keir Starmer, Lisa Nandy and Rebecca Long Bailey in Dewsbury in West Yorkshire. Sophy is joined by Matt Lavender and Kate McCann for post-debate analysis.

Transcript

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0:32.2

Hello and welcome to a very special edition at the Sophie Ridge on Sunday podcast.

0:36.8

We're in Dewsbury, where I've just hosted a live debate between the three candidates who want to be

0:41.2

the next Labour leader, Rebecca Long Bailey, Kirstama and Lisa Nandy. We're going to be listening

0:46.8

to the best bits of that debate and giving some analysis.

1:01.9

Well, at the minute me and Matt Levander are sitting in a room, a back room in Dewsbury Town Hall. We've just come away from doing the debate, haven't we, Matt?

1:07.9

We have indeed. I mean, I think we should just do a health warning before we start.

1:11.5

We are aware that it's not Sunday. This is the Sophie Ridge on Sunday podcast, but it's not Sunday

1:16.3

and that's because we are here for this special event. Yeah, we're in quite a nice little green

1:20.5

room actually compared to what the candidates have had to put up with this evening. I actually

1:24.3

think this has been a pretty nice place for us to prep all day. Yeah, don't tell anyone, but we've definitely got the best dressing room. Yeah, it's quite nice here.

1:31.7

But it was, so what we hear for, if you didn't see it, it was a sort of special live debate

1:35.6

program on Sky News, which Sophie hosted. We had an audience of about 80 people, the three candidates

1:40.7

who want to be the next Labour leader, and they slugged it out over sort of a variety of different topics,

1:46.2

everything from anti-Semitism to Brexit to why Rebecca Long Bailey calls her son the king.

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