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Casinos, coups and life on the breadline with Labour’s Jon Ashworth
Casinos, coups and life on the breadline with Labour’s Jon Ashworth
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Length:
33 minutes
Released:
Jun 10, 2022
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Podcast episode
Description
Co-host Jack Blanchard speaks to Jon Ashworth, Labour’s pugnacious shadow work and pensions secretary about his extraordinary childhood and his 20-plus years in Parliament.In the week Boris Johnson faced down an attempted Tory coup, Ashworth recalls the tumultuous years he spent working for former PM Gordon Brown as Labour MPs plotted to bring him down. He discusses the frustrating past decade in opposition, and where Labour has got it wrong since 2010. And he opens up about his remarkable childhood, with an alcoholic father who worked as a croupier in a Manchester casino and a mother who worked as a Bunny Girl waitress in the same venue. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Released:
Jun 10, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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