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Angela Rayner

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  1. “Council houses. I'm going to build the next wave of social and council houses, nice ones, green ones, ones you want to live in.”

    2023-12-11 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 50. Angela Rayner: From zero GCSEs to Britain’s most powerful woman? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “I collect people, especially people that are different from me. I'm one of these type of leaders that think, I know what my strengths are. If I've got a weakness, I bring people in that plug that weakness for me. So I understand that. So I've just been incredibly resourceful person because I've had to survive throughout my life for different challenges. But those challenges have not broke me. They've strengthened me.”

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  3. “So I think I had adversity growing up, but I also was nurtured by the state other people that looked after me. And there was my nan looked after me in certain ways and my teachers did. And going to the youth club on a Friday and that being a home help, meeting people that are professors that needed me, the role reversal, people, professional people that all of a sudden in their last months of their life needed my support and help. So we're mixed with different people for the first time in my life, having to be resourceful because I had to look after myself.”

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  4. “Look at the jumper he's wearing. Look at Jumper. I mean, without being immodest, reflect a little bit on what those qualities are because it's not the thing that normally makes sense, right? I mean, you wouldn't normally, and you must have felt this when you was Shadow Secretary of State for Education. We're telling all our kids they need to do well, study well, get the GCSE so that they can become Agile Rayner. And here you are as an example of somebody who didn't do any of those things And you're able to talk fluently about labour history, about the economy, about this and the other. So tell us a little bit about two or three things about yourself which you think made that possible”

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  5. “No, I haven't stopped being myself. Yeah, I am me, but I also am aware that you carry a great sense of responsibility in the work that we do. And, you know, you just try and continue to do that.”

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  6. “And some of the piling on that you get, it radicalizes people. The way in which our social media networks work at the moment, it radicalizes people to approve their views and then also go that one step further. So it becomes more of a challenge in this day and age to respectfully disagree. And there's people out there that take it to another level. And that can be quite scary. When we've had two members of parliament in a very short period of time murdered in their constituencies, it does make you think, you know, and certainly when I've had to take measures to look after my family, that bit of it has changed me as a person. I don't go out with my mates as I would do before and because I know if I went out for a drink with my mates, as I would have done, as most people do every now and again, you only need one picture if you with your eyes slightly closed because you were blinking and that's it. You look absolutely this picture that goes around social media of Florence Welsh from Florence and the Machines and they say look at”

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  7. “In the long run, probably, but it's very painful when you're going through it. I think the lowest moments was, you know, Boris Johnson, is it Traitor Bill? And I remember during that period, it wasn't long after we'd lost Joe and we were in the chamber. Yeah. And Paula Sheriff got up. She was an MP at the time and she was in tears and she said, I'm getting death threats.”

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  8. “You can't exercise. There's so many people at the moment that you've got rights at work and they can't exercise their statutory rights at the moment. So those reforms will give people more empowerment in their workplace.”

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  9. “The context of it is that banning zero hour contracts, rights from day one, overhauling sick pay, I mean, some conservative colleagues agree with me on these things because they see the imbalance that we have at the moment, you know, fair pay agreements to really tackle and set in social care, which is one of the most challenging areas to do it, but I know it can be done. And that's why I've said it, to tackle the scourge of low pay in those areas in terms and conditions and reform for training. So there is a huge package within that New Deal for Working People that will empower workers in the workplace who at the moment there is an imbalance. Now, the best employers understand that my New Deal for Work of People is brilliant and they're on it because it's good for business as well. It's good for our economy. There is poor employers out there who have poor practices towards their staff and it is damaging people's lives because you're not insecure work. You can't get on. You're in low pay.”

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  10. “I think he will be. I think he will be radical, but he's great British energy and the green prosperity plan and the stuff I'm doing around New Deal for Working People. These are big reforms that will make a huge difference. The planning reforms we're making so that I can build council and social housing that we know we desperately need in this country, new towns that we've announced we're going to be doing. These are big, huge reforms that will make a big, huge difference for our country. So I don't think he's lacking being radical. I think the mess that we're in at the moment means that you also have to be realistic that you're not going to fix everything overnight.”

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  11. “To reform the system to get the intervention where it's needed the most. And you do get payback from that. It takes a bit of a leap of faith as well because I did this in home care when I was the union official in Stockport. We turned it around from a deficit budget to a surplus budget that we gave to learning disabilities because we were able to work in partnership to keep people out of hospital who were reoccurring offenders of going back into hospital because they didn't get the home care. So we worked with GP commissioning units who funded and it took a leap of faith from them to fund through because it's a different public body to give us the funding and let us manage it and we kept people out of hospital. He saved so much money that we were able to give money back to the local authority.”

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  12. “What is also realistic about what we can do? Keith's been really clear that our number one priority is to grow the economy. We're not going to be able to fix all of our crumbling public services unless we grow the economy. Otherwise, we have to raise taxes and we're not going to be raising the taxes with tax burden on working people is the highest it's ever been for a generation. So the challenge for us is to grow the size of the growth strategy that we want in the UK so that we can afford our public services and reform of our public service as well. And that's what we've said because in a lot of these areas, there is a real challenge around reforming what's happening there. It's, you know, we haven't got enough probation. We haven't got enough early intervention. So we're putting loads of resources at the far end, which cost more money. You know, my mum, if my mum had a crisis, there's no outreach. You can't get appointment with a doctor. She'll ring me. What happens? My mum ends up in A&E. She ends up needing acute care. Costs loads of money. Just give her some help when she needed it. And then it would have cost the state a lot less to do that. So you've got to be able.”

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  13. “Of course, it There's other ways to deal with some crime. There is other ways to work within the system. Our probation service, for example, our youth justice system, our youth services, our social work, all of these avenues at the moment are totally crumbling. So part of our resource plan, part of our looking at the whole approach to how we support communities is about trying to do some of that work. These people in prison that quite frankly are in there that could have been prevented. Now, I accept you can't do that overnight. I accept there is a challenge in that. But there is also a problem now where people who should be in prison are not in prison because the whole criminal justice system is completely crumbled after 13 years of the Conservatives.”

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  14. “How are you going to sort that But the problem you're going to face next year is prisons crowded the bursting. And if you go around endlessly asking for longer sentences, not letting people out, you're going to end up with far too many people in the system. Now, you may over 10, 20 years be able to address the root causes of crime and address it from early childhood, but that's not going to.”

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  15. “And they're overcrowded with the wrong, bear I say it, the wrong type of prisoner. Because first of all, you've got to sort out the system at the moment which are crumbling public services that are locking off-rolling the kids, that are locking people out of the system from a very young age, and therefore you're storing up the problems all the way along. You've got to have a good thriving public service. You've got to have jobs that people could go into and opportunities.”

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  16. “I mean, that is different. The most serious of crimes, and this is, pardon the pun, our crime at the moment, that the government are going to release people early.”

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  17. “I agree so strongly, and 35% of prisoners have been in care, 40% have been excluded from school. As you say, big issues of mental health, biggest use for poverty. But all I'm hearing at the moment from the Labour Party is being ferociously tough on crime, putting out stuff saying, do you think that people who sex the assault children should go to prison Rishi Sunak doesn't under Labour 1600 more people would have different”

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  18. “Abuse there is a lot of people in our prisons at the moment that quite frankly shouldn't be there, and the only thing that happens when they go into prison is they become more acute at being a criminal. It doesn't actually solve the problem.”

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  19. “I recognised why the disproportionate amount of people from different backgrounds that end up in prison and why and how they end up there. And you've got to have a preventative approach because, you know, I talk about when I have my son at 16, he changed my life because I had someone to look after and I had someone to be responsible for because I had no self-worth. So I could have got myself into a lot of trouble when I was younger. I could have chosen a different path. I was already leading that way as I alluded to. There was things outside the school that I find far more interesting. So I was going nightclubs at 14 and getting mixed in with the wrong crowd. And it was quite dangerous. I could have been in a very different place there but for the grace of God I ended up in a different place and took a different path. But the challenge we've got in the criminal justice system at the moment, far too often there's people in the criminal justice system that have not been given an opportunity to get whether they've got mental health problems or whether it's poverty or whether it's substance.”

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  20. “One of the things you do very powerfully, and which is very important, is speaking for a part of society that's often ignored, people like your mother. But there are other bits of society which politics ignores, in particular, for example, prisoners. And I feel the public don't think enough about prisoners. It doesn't matter enough in votes. But our prisons are horribly overcrowded. Both parties seem to be in a competition for ever longer prison sentences, locking people out more. And frankly, we don't have the room built for about 65,000 people. They got about 85,000 in them. If you continue down the route, the Conservatives of Labour are going down, you end up with 120,000 prisoners and nowhere to put them. When are we going to hear Labour speak compassionately for conditions for prisoners and above all be practical about reducing sentence length so we don't end up with these? I recognize why.”

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  21. “Better than everybody else in the room. And I think you've seen through the COVID inquiry the dangers of where you get to regardless of people's academia or background of arrogance when people think they know better than other people.”

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  22. “Absolutely. Yeah, I work closely with Keir now. Absolutely. Because I can make decisions and I can look at evidence. I don't think I know everything. That's the big difference. And there's some people that go into those jobs. And I think Keir's very similar to me like that. He will always look at the evidence frustratingly so for some people because, you know, people think that I look at it from a purely sort of emotional sense. It's not true. I feel the great sense. I understand where my emotions come from and why I'm hungry for it, but I feel a great sense of responsibility to do my homework because of I didn't have a formal education, because of my background. So I do my homework. Whenever I've come to a position and I've led the front bench and the opposition in those fields, it's because I've done my homework and I've made a decision based upon what I believe to be the facts and also what I believe to be the right thing to do. And I've worked in a consensual way to get there. And I've not been arrogant to think I know.”

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  23. “Strangely on that second thing, I very much believe it's about luck. It's more the right wing of the Conservative Party who thinks, you know, get on your bike, Tebit. I mean, I very much come from a tradition that believes that a lot is to do with luck. I don't think that when people are well off, it's because they've just deserved it or they've worked harder. I think that's more the right of the Conservative Party.”

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  24. “Not people's own success to why they get to where they are necessarily. Yes, there is a bit of that, but actually I also think that you also need to have a little bit of luck in there and you also have a bit of society and you've got to pay that back. That's the difference I would say.”

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  25. “Okay, I think you think that people should be able to get on. I think you think people should be able to go to university and do the things they want to do. I think you care about the environment. I think they care about animal rights in particular. I think they want to see public state that looks after people when they need it but isn't overly utilised and isn't overly burdensome. And they want to see people have lower taxes. I say the biggest analogy I would say, the difference is that they believe that people can get on by themselves and should have the rewards of their own success and wealth, whereas I actually have a different view on that because I think some people I've been quite lucky, I've had help and assistance, but also I don't blame other people for their misfortune if they've not been as fortunate. So I would say that's the big distinction between me and a more moderate conservative is it's”

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  26. “Well, I'm not saying you're leaning a little bit, UK. I'm saying that that's what I used to say, the analogy was people in my family who have very different views politically than I do.”

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  27. “Sorry, I'm being really unfair. Obviously, from my point of view, leaning a bit ukopey is kind of offensive to me. Yeah, trying to win over a centrist voter like me. Want to be characterized as somebody who's leaning a bit uppy.”

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  28. “Well, maybe I need to work on that a little bit more because you would be welcome in the Labour Party. And, you know, I've always had people, these people in my family, not my family are not left wing. You know, I used to talk about it. You go to a family do and you have to convince the one, you know, that leans a little bit UKIP-Py. You have to have that conversation with him. I used to say this at fundraisers because I recognize that, that people have different views. But where I mark the distinction”

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  29. “We talk a lot about polarization and populism and antagonism at politics and clearly Kisan seems to be trying to lead a movement which is trying to be welcoming of people who would have voted conservative in the past. And I wonder whether this kind of, I understand your anger. I understand your language, but it doesn't emotionally come across to me as great, this is a party I want to join. I'm going to feel at home. She's going to welcome me in. It feels like anger.”

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  30. “Absolutely. Absolutely. And I still have constructive conversations and relationships, friendships with conservative MPs to this day. I just mentioned before Justin Greening, me and her worked really hard on sex and relationship education bill. Joe Johnson, he's Boris Johnson's brother. I get on extremely well with Joe Johnson as I still do to this day. We opened up an arts college together the other week. So it was not conservatives that I had a problem with. It was with those people who looked down on working class people, who makes comments that quite frankly, you'd be arrested for in the street making those comments. And he was our Prime Minister. It's like the hypocrisy just stunk to me.”

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  31. “Criminalizing people who shoplift, they put tags on baby food. They put tags on women's maternity bras because people can't afford the maternity, you don't go robbing maternity bras. These are essential items that people needed. Yes, they shouldn't go shoplifting, but no realisation about the difficulties that working class people face and the pride that they have there. They don't want to ask for things when they've got to get a handout. People don't like that. It's humiliating. But he was going around making those comments. And I said, I said, I will apologize. And it was him I was calling out in his cabinet who was accepting it. I said, I will apologize and I did in the end because I didn't want people to abuse Tories because that was not my intention. I wanted to call out Boris Johnson in the hypocrisy. I said I'd debate him and we can apologize and I'll apologize for my comments and we can have a full on debate about why he thinks it's acceptable to make the comments he made and then”

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  32. “I was fuming. Boris Johnson, our Prime Minister, who had made the most appalling comments racist, misogynistic, homophobic comments. And I'm like, hang on. If I did that as a home help on minimum wage, I'd never work in the care sector again. That's my Prime Minister. How can you look down on people like me who would never ever say anything like that, let alone think it? If you said that, the stuff that Boris Johnson has said in my local boozer, you'd be thrown out. You wouldn't get to the bar, you won't get anywhere near it. So we got a prime minister who thinks he's a posh boy who looks down on people like me who thinks he can get away with saying things like that. So I expressed it in the wrong term amongst comrades. But I was fuming because this guy was sanctioning people for benefits, telling people who were in food banks that they need to work a little bit harder.”

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  33. “Sort of get something which sort of feels a bit more personal to me, which is that I think you've come across face to face as a very, very warm, sympathetic person. But in public, for someone like me, I really felt, you know, even as a voter, let alone as a member, I wouldn't really be welcome in your kind of Labour Party. Why is that? You cannot get any worse than a bunch of scum homophobic racist, misogynistic, absolute pile of banana republic, Etonian piece of scum, right? Yeah.”

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  34. “I'm a kind of John Prescott E and Barbara Cassley and a bit of everything in between. I think even just kind of describing yourself as giants of our movement is pretty awesome to me. But I just try and do my best. I just try and do, like people have put a lot of trust in me to be a politician and to be a working class female politician from the North. I feel a real sense of obligation to not screw it up, to prove to people that girls from my background are intelligent and can achieve things. We can roll our sleeves up in any environment, including male-dominated environments, and we can get things done. And that's what my focus has been. And that's what I continue to focus on is like, no, I want, you know, if we're lucky enough to get into government and nobody thought me and Keir could turn things around, and I accept the Tories have helped us significantly in that, but nobody thought we could turn the party and change the party in the way that we have. We've got real opportunity to make real change in the country.”

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  35. “We both came out of it stronger, actually, because you've worked with people before, you have your A, hang on, this is, here's our lines, you cross one, and then it's like, right, well, how do we work and constructively make sure that we don't get in that position again? And since then, me and Kira have had a very healthy respect for each other.”

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  36. “Yeah, I think it was more that time ran away with Kay. He didn't get a chance to tell me before my team had a press inquiry about why I was moving. So it wasn't the nicest moment of mine and kids. But we came out of it stronger.”

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  37. “I love the way you can be disciplined with Jeremy and now discipline with Keir because I think you're right. You've got to be disciplined, particularly if you're in government. But I just wondered your relationship with Keir, which is important. It did seem to have a wobble around the time of the aftermath of the Hartleypool by-elections or the talk about the reshuffle.”

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  38. “Where Israel has been having rockets fired at it, and that's been happening time and time again, and also find that peaceful solution where we recognize the Palestinian state. That's what people deserve in that region”

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  39. “To threaten Israel, people in Hamas have said they want to wipe Israel off the face of the map. That's never been Labour Party policy. We, of course, want to see a Palestinian state, but Israel has to be recognized absolutely like Britain is, like Germany is, it's a state, it's there, and it has a right to be safe and secure. But the Palestinians do as well. So there has to be a long-term political solution to it. And Keir was trying to navigate his way through that to get the violence to stop, to the recognition of what the horrific situation happened on the 7th, to get to a situation where the Palestinians are protected as part of that process, but also in his Chatham Mouse speech, which I thought was incredibly important, was about the political steps to not paying lip service, because everyone says where we want a two-state solution, but actually challenge what's been happening on the West Bank, challenge the occupied territories, and also make sure that we challenge”

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  40. “I was a regional convener for the northwest of Unison, and we used to put lots of money into the Palestinian cause. And I still support the Palestinian cause, and I still want to see recognition for the Palestinian state. But in the context of where we are, what Kir is trying to do in his limited way as the leader of the opposition is to get to a situation where those hostages, that people understood what happened on the 7th, that people really understood what happened to Israel on the 7th of October, that people were butchered, murdered, raped, slaughtered over 200 hostages taken, rockets still being fired into Israel at the same time as seeing what's happening to the Palestinian people. And he wanted to get to a position internationally and working with our government, so we spoke with one voice to get to a situation where we could stop the violence. We could deal with Hamas because they cannot be allowed to continue.”

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  41. “Yeah, because Gaza, you can see what's happening there, and everybody can see the destruction. They saw what happened on the 7th of October. They're seeing the humanitarian crisis that's unfolding. And everyone's desperate to stop. They can see it on their screen. Everyone's desperate to see that end and that outpouring is, it's an emotional connection to what's happening there and completely understand that as a mother and her grandmother completely get that.”

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  42. “Alistair was saying when we were chatting yesterday of the two big issues which have been talked about in the last couple of weeks, which is Gaza and Kirsama's comments about Margaret Thatcher, the more difficult thing is Gaza that in the end he can make comments about Margaret Thatcher and Sonny Telegraph, that's not really going to have an impact. But Gaza is a real thing. Do you agree that Gaza is more important than Margaret Thatcher?”

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  43. “Oh, you're this, it's not as binary, it's that, it's about realistically being able to make a difference and challenge the fact that in government, you can't do everything you want to do. And in the constraints of what we're going to inherit, we're not going to be able to do everything we want to do, but we can do things better and do different things.”

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  44. “I'll always have my arguments behind the scenes about what I believe in and what I want. But as I said before, I've never really got everything I want. I'm a trade unionist at my heart. I try and get the best I can get and ring fence what I'm up to and make the difference. But you have to be realistic about what you're able to do. And I think what Kier's trying to explain as well is, look, the situation if we were lucky enough to win the next general election, the situation we're going to be in, we're not going to be able to do everything that makes us all warm and cuddly inside because we don't have it. A classic example of this was when everyone was in up in arms and was like, everyone was desperate to speak to me when Keir said we're not going to do free school meals for our kids because obviously I was a free school meal kid and everyone's like Angie you must be opposed to this and I was like but we're bringing in breakfast clubs because that's what we could afford and we also knew that would make the biggest impact so it's not as binary as that people like to think that you you choose one thing there and it indicates that your right wing on that”

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  45. “But it was interesting that question was asked You at all worried that in trying to win over the people that Labour needs to win over, that Kiir's maybe trying to push you a bit too far towards the centre?”

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  46. “And you can't function like that. You can't. And that's the difference now is that we were in opposition and it was bad enough in opposition, as people said to me, you gave us Boris Johnson because they couldn't see us as a government. The challenge we've got now is we've got this level of dysfunction at the heart of government and I've had that for a long time.”

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  47. “It was, I mean, I might as well have just added in this room with all the microphones on, or at least then you could have put your own spin on it, or at least have had it in your own sort of your own language. Because the stuff that came out of it, some of it was spun, you'd be impressed with this spinning pot on some of it. I wasn't. I'm not just talking about Jeremy's team, I talk about everybody. It was dysfunctional. It was dysfunctional. At the same time.”

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  48. “And to be fair, Ben did a good job. I'm glad he did, because at least he was there. I think Boris Johnson, and you can see that through the COVID inquiry, you were also correct, he was not the right person to be Prime Minister. But Ben got in there and steered us through some very, very difficult times and did it, I think, reasonably well. You know, I remember I had a problem in my constituency and Ben came down. He's like, Tories are never going to, you know, get anywhere near my Ashley underline seat at the time. It wasn't an election mode. He came down because he believed they'd get rid of tackling the criminals who were making people's lives hell in my constituents and I dragged him down and he was there.”

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  49. “But the reason this resonates with me is that that's the defense that my colleagues make for, I refuse to serve in Boris Johnson's cabinet. And I was very, very angry. When other people were prepared to serve. And of course, people like Ben Wallace would say, Oh, yeah, but you know, somebody's got to be the defense secretary. And to be fair, Ben.”

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  50. “And they would have been angry with you because they would have felt, many of them would have felt I could have been shadow secretary of education. I refused to take it because I was trying to take down Corbyn. And now we've been undermined by you. I respect”

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