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Former UK Labour politician - Derek Hatton

Former UK Labour politician - Derek Hatton

FromHARDtalk


Former UK Labour politician - Derek Hatton

FromHARDtalk

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Length:
23 minutes
Released:
Aug 29, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

HARDtalk’s Shaun Ley speaks to former UK Labour politician Derek Hatton. In the blue corner, a formidable woman Prime Minister with an enviable opinion poll lead; in the red corner, a left-wing leader of the opposition seen by many on his own side as unelectable. It's how things look today as they did in the mid-1980s when Derek Hatton was the poster boy of Britain's far left. Confronting Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher over funding for his home city of Liverpool, he gambled by threatening 30,000 council workers with redundancy and lost. He was expelled by the Labour Party. Now Jeremy Corbyn is leader, Derek Hatton wants to come back. Is British politics returning to the ideological clashes of the 1980s?
Released:
Aug 29, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

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