Peter Mandelson: ‘I’ve yet to meet a Tory who says they are going to win’
Chopper's Politics
The Telegraph
4.2 • 864 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
It's a bumper episode for Chopper's Politics listeners this week, don't say we don't treat you.
Lord Mandelson joins Christopher Hope on the week that former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was barred from standing as Labour candidate. He muses on whether Sir Keir Starmer might actually want Corbyn to run against him ("I couldn't possibly say..."), reveals how impressed he is by the upcoming crop of Labour candidates, "absolutely as good, if not better, than those we selected in the 1990s before the new Labour government", but why his party can't presume it's in the bag.
Plus Henry Dimbleby on nutrition and the nanny state, and Professor Tim Bale on whether the Tories can still claim to be the party of reinvention.
Ravenous: How to get ourselves and our planet into shape, by Henry Dimbleby and Jemima Lewis
The Conservative Party After Brexit: Turmoil and Transformation, by Tim Bale
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Chopper's politics. |
| 0:04.0 | He wants Jeremy Corbyn to stand against him, doesn't he? |
| 0:07.0 | For me... |
| 0:08.0 | Oh, I couldn't possibly, uh... |
| 0:10.0 | What do you think? I mean, what... |
| 0:11.0 | So you and me talking... |
| 0:12.0 | Between you and me, you mean Between you and me you mean you me. |
| 0:13.4 | You and me. You mean me. You mean. |
| 0:14.4 | Hello I'm Christopher Hope, the Associate Editor for Politics at the Daily Telegraph and |
| 0:21.2 | welcome to Choppers Politics Podcast. |
| 0:24.7 | We've got a bumper episode for you today listeners to get you through the weekend. |
| 0:29.1 | Later, I'll be talking to Leon, founder and government advisor Henry Dimbleby about whether there's such a thing as the Nanny State when it comes to food. |
| 0:40.0 | And Professor Tim Bale will discuss the Tory party post Brexit and whether the party of reinvention has run out of options. |
| 0:47.0 | But first, it's a week when Jeremy Corbyn was blocked from standing as a Labour candidate at the next general election and remarking two big |
| 0:54.6 | anniversaries of the Iraq War in 2003 and a good Friday agreement in 1998. |
| 1:02.3 | So there couldn't be a better time to catch up with my first guest who |
| 1:05.1 | lived through those seismic events, Peter Manlson, Lord Mandlson. We spoke to him |
| 1:10.0 | ahead of a global council event at the Welcome Collection when he's due to |
| 1:14.3 | interview the Shadow Health Secretary where Strutting and started by asking him the |
| 1:19.6 | big question. Will Labour win the next general election? |
| 1:24.0 | Well, put it this way, why on earth would anyone want to elect a fifth term, Tory government? |
| 1:31.0 | Because by then there might be a degree of deliverable achievement by this government and there's |
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