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Lisa Nandy

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“Yeah, he said the emphasis is on delivery. What I want that to be is your watchword. Write it on the wall in your office. I want delivery. And then he said, and Lisa in particular, if you don't deliver the right result in the euros, then you'll be the shortest-lived appointment I make. You can't be on the result.”
2024-07-14 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 85. Lisa Nandy: Making Britain a cultural superpower · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, in fact, I mean, he said that publicly, but to me, sadly, it's been very much the opposite. So at the first cabinet meeting, he said. Well, he said he bores you up.”
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“Been most impacted by the cuts to council funding. So we've got to find a way of making sure that the funding that is there gets to the right places and supports a diversity of things. My favourite museum in the whole country is the People's History Museum in Manchester. And it's never, it's funded by all of our local councils across Greater Manchester because we know how important it is. Don't think it's ever had a penny of government money. So I've already asked the civil servants to look at where all that money is, who's being appointed to the boards, where they come from in the country, you know, so that the decisions are being made by people who understand the richness and diversity of our”
2024-07-14 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 85. Lisa Nandy: Making Britain a cultural superpower · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So there's a challenge around money, particularly because if you look at the arts in particular, when it comes to private philanthropy, it tends to be in London. And the big, great institutions, arts outside of London tends to be council funded and council funding has been devastated over the last decade and a half. And it's meant that the arts is often the first thing to be cut. And I remember being in Stoke a few years ago and I did question time and the audience were telling me after the event that after the show had finished that they were really livid because the council had put on an exhibition about ceramics and a lot of the ceramics on display had come from China, which for anyone who knows the history of Stoke will know is just an enormous insult. But, you know, we've got the jewelry quarter in Birmingham. We've got the ceramics industry in Stoke, brass bands in my constituency, massive, you know, part of our heritage and cultural legacy. And they're all the things that are...”
2024-07-14 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 85. Lisa Nandy: Making Britain a cultural superpower · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, you haven't asked me about any of it, in fairness. I mean, I could wax lyrical about theatre till the cows come home. Music and particularly for kids in places like Wigham, we're home to the Verve and lots of other great musicians over the years. But the live music venues have disappeared. We talked about sport, but we didn't talk about grassroots sport, which is the visible symbol in communities of how much our kids matter to us. So these will be some of the things that are my priority. So I'll tell you what, ask me back on in a year's time and let me talk about some of those things because honestly, and actually this, you'll like this one, Alistair. But, you know, there's been a real impact of the Brexit deal that we got on musicians in particular, being able to tour. These are all things that we've got to deal with as a government.”
2024-07-14 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 85. Lisa Nandy: Making Britain a cultural superpower · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, actually, my stepdad had very strong views about this as an investigative journalist. He felt very, very strongly that because they were at Grenada, obviously there was advertising, but he felt very, very strongly that that could create a conflict of interest and restrain the space for investigative journalism without fear or favour. So I can sort of almost hear his voice in my ear right now. He died a few years ago of cancer, but I can almost hear his voice in my ear saying you need to look at that and take it seriously. So not for you, but for him.”
2024-07-14 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 85. Lisa Nandy: Making Britain a cultural superpower · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You're illiberal. Yeah, lecturing people about the lives that they lead and constraining the choices that are available to people. And I think for someone with your politics, Rory, and we know each other reasonably well, I would say that that notion of a government that is utterly devoted to the service of the country, where the priorities that people have in the country are therefore important to us as a consequence and that will defend and support them, but will do so in a way that isn't dictatorial, but walks alongside people in order to achieve their own ambitions. I would say that that is something that can bring people together right now and bringing people together is the most important job that this government will have. We've had horrible decade and a half. It's been the darkest decade and a half in my lifetime. And we found multiple ways to divide ourselves from one another. And we've got to pull together and move forwards as a country. So that will be my pitch.”
2024-07-14 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 85. Lisa Nandy: Making Britain a cultural superpower · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There was a phrase that Keir used when he first addressed the nation as the Prime Minister about a government that would tread lightly on people's lives. And I think that's really important because one of the ways that I've been sort of, you know, watching with astonishment and horror, watching what's happening in the Conservative Party in recent years is the way in which a party that traditionally has been very much for sort of freedom and very associated with that concept. I made a speech about freedom when I was first elected and I said we've got to reclaim this from the right as a notion. And I wouldn't need to make that speech now because it became a very sort of interventionist heavy-handed, you know, particularly in my area.”
2024-07-14 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 85. Lisa Nandy: Making Britain a cultural superpower · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, look, I mean, at the moment, I'm trying to find a place to plug my phone in in the department. I haven't managed to find a plug socket yet. So give us a few days. I'm only five days in. But, you know, for me, actually, the priority when it comes to the media is that for a very long time, we've had real problems, particularly with our local media, local papers, regional and local radio. Very much so, although”
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“I'm a big supporter of the BBC and the whole notion of public service broadcasting. My mum's from an investigative journalist background. I think it's incredibly important that politicians set the framework right but don't stray into trying to lecture people on what content can be produced, whether it's the BBC or the Daily Mail. It's not my job to do that. And you'll see a very different approach from us in government around that. The framework right is important to me, but trying to police what is said or is not said is completely inappropriate.”
2024-07-14 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 85. Lisa Nandy: Making Britain a cultural superpower · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, okay, lobbying taken. I think what you'll have heard from David Lammy is a very clear message, that these are his first visit was to Europe. These are our closest neighbours. They should be our closest friends and closest allies, starting particularly with Ireland. You know, we recognise what Brexit has done to Ireland and we want to make sure certainly the way that Brexit was done has been very difficult for people there. And we want to make sure that we rebuild those relationships and repair them. And that's been a day one priority. And so honestly, Alistair, I'll come back on in five years time and you can do what you never do. You can eat your words.”
2024-07-14 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 85. Lisa Nandy: Making Britain a cultural superpower · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“More of our arts, culture, heritage from every part of the country reflected in our national story, whether it's the, you know, putting sports like rugby league up front and centre, whether it's the stuff that Johnny Reynolds is doing with Ed Miliband on the industrial strategy. Really great jobs in parts of the country where within living memory, people powered the world through dangerous, difficult work in the mines and giving their children and grandchildren the right to power us through the next century through clean energy. You look at all the work that we're doing. It's about putting people back in charge of their own destiny and respecting the contribution that they've got to make. And that, for me, is the answer to Brexit, actually. That's the answer to what people were clamoring for when they came out and voted in very large numbers to leave in places like Wigan.”
2024-07-14 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 85. Lisa Nandy: Making Britain a cultural superpower · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Very big pang of sort of I miss that, but I remember talking to you about this at her funeral. And I think the problem with where I think people like you ended up with was that I don't think that, and you know, you can say that you think this is unfair, but I don't think you made enough effort to understand what was driving Brexit. And it wasn't just about the European Union. I know that's one of the things that drove you mad about it, was that it wasn't just about the European Union. But actually, it was this real sense that people had that they had been that the contribution that they have to make had been completely written off. You know, Kir made a really important speech two years ago. For me, it was his most important speech he's ever made, where he said for too long our plan for most of the country has been one word redistribution. And my government is going to respect the contribution that people have to make. So if you look at what is running through everything that we're doing as a new government, like a silver thread, whether it's the work that I'm doing, to get”
2024-07-14 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 85. Lisa Nandy: Making Britain a cultural superpower · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I remember talking about this at Tessa Jowell's funeral, so I had a very poignant moment this week because Tessa was my political. She was like my political mum, basically. She fished me off the back benches as a, if you remember back in 2010, I was the hard left of the Labour Party before all the Corbyn stuff happened. And I was her PPS on the Olympics. And she was wonderful all the way through until she died. She looked after me. In fact, even after she died, I got a phone call from her wonderful staffer, Liam, who is now the newly elected MP for Beckham. And he said he broke the horrible news. And I said, can I say something? Can I go out and say something publicly about how wonderful she was? And he said, she's already written it. And I thought it's just wonderful. It's just so Tessa. But I had this moment this week where, I mean, she was the culture secretary who brought the Olympics to Britain. And I thought she would be bursting with pride, but she would also be bossing me around something chronic. And I really had this.”
2024-07-14 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 85. Lisa Nandy: Making Britain a cultural superpower · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because very quickly after 2012, what you had was the Indie ref up in Scotland. You had the rise of dramatic rise of UKIP that went from nowhere to come second or third in so many constituencies that had never, ever allowed the far right to get a foothold before. You had Brexit, we found multiple ways to divide ourselves from one another. We lost the ability to understand one another. And we became what felt like a very angry nation. And he said to me, that country is still there. It's just waiting for someone to give voice to it. And that is your job. And I really felt that sense of responsibility walking through those doors into Downing Street, notwithstanding that I was relieved to be fully clothed. But I really felt that sense of responsibility walking through because there is a better country out there than the governments that we've had. And that is my mission that over the next five years, I am going to make sure that we do everything that we can from this department that is the beating heart of that soul of the...”
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“We have to put people back at the centre of their own story. That was very much the sort of message that I gave to our amazing civil service team in DCMS when I took over a few days ago. Because actually governments don't change things, people do. And the job of government is to walk alongside them as a partner, helping them give voice to the country that we are. If you look across this country, it is the story of ordinary extraordinary people who every day quietly go off and work in their own communities to make this country better. And a few years ago, when I ran to be Labour leader, I sat down with Danny Boyle, who is a berry lad, so I went to college in Berry along with Jonathan Ashworth. My amazing former colleague, and I sat down with him and said to him, the Olympics opening ceremony in 2012 was the last time that I really felt that we told a story about”
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“Caroline Lucas, Joe Swinson. And I remember the really sneery attitude from a lot of MPs saying, Oh, sorry, I think that's your job, actually, to make these decisions. But when they did do a citizens' assembly, soft Brexit was exactly what people came up with. They just found a way to compromise and work their way through it. And for me, that's a difference between politics and protest is that you're willing to negotiate your way through shared challenges to get the right outcome for the majority of people. And protest is the opposite. It's standing on the sidelines and shouting. I know Alistair's going to come in and really have a go at me now, but I really, honestly, I felt that that was mostly what was going on in the political system.”
2024-07-14 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 85. Lisa Nandy: Making Britain a cultural superpower · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Got reopened. I think part of the problem with that actually was that certainly on our side, but also on the conservative side, you had a complete breakdown of collective responsibility. Now, I'm somebody who has been mostly sacked, demoted, or resigned in every reshuffle I've been in and have been in frequent trouble with the whips for 14 years. And I do believe that politicians have to speak their mind. And, you know, you're there to represent your constituents first and foremost, not your party. But the complete lack of collective responsibility, the complete breakdown of that across the political parties made it very difficult to get anything done. People weren't willing to compromise with one another. And I think what we really did was a big disservice to the country because we lost sight of the people in the country. It's really telling to me, do you remember we tried to do this thing in the middle of it where we tried to get a citizens assembly up and running? And there was a whole gang of us. So Rory and I were amongst them, but people like Stella Creasy.”
2024-07-14 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 85. Lisa Nandy: Making Britain a cultural superpower · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I mean, 52 48, as soon as I saw that result coming, I was at the national count in Manchester. It's a mandate for compromise. We ask people to make the decision. I didn't, I didn't vote for the referendum, but we asked people to make the decision, if you believe in democracy, then you believe that you respect that. I don't like the fact that we keep having Tory governments elected, but we do. So you've just got to deal with it. But it meant that 48% of the country had obviously taken a different view. And that was a mandate for a soft Brexit, in my view. It was a close relationship, but outside of the European Union. And for a few years, actually, that was exactly the place we were in. If you remember in 2017, everyone thought labour would be wiped out in places like Wigan and your former constituency. But we weren't because I think actually the issue had been somewhat neutralised because people said, well, this is where we are. And then, of course, the fight continued.”
2024-07-14 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 85. Lisa Nandy: Making Britain a cultural superpower · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Especially on social media. I remember you sitting in the green room of what was then the Daily Politics and we were waiting to go on. And you said to me, you must look after yourself. Don't look at social media because I was looking at Twitter, I think. You said, don't look at social media. It's awful. I said, it's you. It's you tweeting abuse at me.”
2024-07-14 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 85. Lisa Nandy: Making Britain a cultural superpower · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I remember you saying it feels like the entire political class has completely lost its mind. And I remember thinking, that is the best summation of where we are that anyone's come up with.”
2024-07-14 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 85. Lisa Nandy: Making Britain a cultural superpower · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, my family is very political. I think I always would have been quite political. My dad used to, because my dad's an academic, he always used to say to us, look, I'm not interested in your opinion. I'm interested in your reasons for holding them. And I remember once my sister having this massive argument with him and winning it about her right not to have an opinion at all and him being really chuffed that she'd managed to win the argument. But him being an academic has always, it's really shaped my politics a lot because of this sort of idea in our family that you have to challenging other people and being challenged back is part of the lifeblood of what makes this country really great. And it's one of the things I most like about Keir and serving in his team is that he very much comes from that tradition.”
2024-07-14 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 85. Lisa Nandy: Making Britain a cultural superpower · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, my mum's labour. But more than that, actually, I grew up in the 1980s. I was born in 79, the year that Margaret Thatcher came to power. I grew up in the 1980s with two loving parents, but in a one-parent household, when families like mine were absolutely under attack on every level from the government, they would talk about single mums in the most disgusting terms. And I remember walking out the house one day with my school uniform on and I'd spilled my breakfast all the way down my front, which I always”
2024-07-14 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 85. Lisa Nandy: Making Britain a cultural superpower · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And our first Prime Minister to go to Leeds, I think Leeds University, although it's not as good as Newcastle, just got to get that in there. But it was quite an extraordinary childhood in the sense that, you know, my friends, like my best friend Jess, she's still, I mean, she does vote now because I give her such a hard time. But, you know, she comes from a very ordinary working class background. all of my friends at school were we were just normal mank kids growing up and something like being a member of parliament felt a million miles away And yet, I come from this extraordinary family where particularly my mum would always say, Of course, you can do it”
2024-07-14 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 85. Lisa Nandy: Making Britain a cultural superpower · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“With Lucy Powell, there are more people in the cabinet now from Parswood High School in Manchester than from Eton, which we're that.”
2024-07-14 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 85. Lisa Nandy: Making Britain a cultural superpower · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, it was sort of, I mean, it was, I mean, obviously, you know, this is much more historic and momentous to hear you two trying to explain football to each other.”
2024-07-14 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 85. Lisa Nandy: Making Britain a cultural superpower · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, so he was a very big figure in the race relations world. People still come up to me and say to me that they knew him, they met him, they worked for him, they volunteered in that struggle. He knew people like Martin Luther King. They went over to the States to learn some of the techniques, things like the blind job application, that sort of thing. They brought those techniques back to the UK in order to sort of win that struggle. And when I was a kid, I remember he used to do a thing every week. He would debate Enoch Powell on national TV. They had a weekly slot.”
2024-07-14 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 85. Lisa Nandy: Making Britain a cultural superpower · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, no, he thinks that the far left and the far right are utterly impractical, as do I, and dangerous and toxic. You know, when he was being chased down dark alleys by people with baseball bats at sort of far-right rallies, they were also, the far left were putting up pictures of him on the tube that said with pictures of his face saying wanted deep acti chalk ice, which those of you who know about race relations will know is a really appalling thing that people say when they say you're brown on the outside, white on the inside. As a way of trying to attack you.”
2024-07-14 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 85. Lisa Nandy: Making Britain a cultural superpower · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, you know, there's a very, there's a, I think in a lot of ways that they do politics, which is to build up people's sense of grievance and anger, but then give it nowhere to go. And it becomes very toxic and very dangerous. And it offers no route to real change for people. It closes off the root to real change for people.”
2024-07-14 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 85. Lisa Nandy: Making Britain a cultural superpower · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm not sure Alistair's the person you want talking about that anyway, to be fair, but I'll get my dad to come on and he can talk to you both about it. But I mean, basically, you know, there's a, you know, from each according to her ability to each according to her need is the sort of central tenet of Marxism. And that's my dad's belief system. But he fought the far right all his life and he fought the far left as well. And actually during the difficult years under Labour, he was very helpful at helping me navigate that because he had to, you know, they meet in the middle, really. They come full circle.”
2024-07-14 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 85. Lisa Nandy: Making Britain a cultural superpower · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I never knew Roy Jenkins, but my understanding is that he was intellectually very curious and interesting and actually framing race legislation, equality's legislation is incredibly hard. You can't police people's thoughts and you shouldn't police people's thoughts. So you've got to find a way to frame it that takes quite a lot of intellectual work and thought. I think my dad was pretty good at that.”
2024-07-14 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 85. Lisa Nandy: Making Britain a cultural superpower · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah. And so that's how we met my mum because he was lobbying a lot of liberal MPs to try and get them to support this effort. And my granddad was in the House of Lords by then, was very supportive.”
2024-07-14 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 85. Lisa Nandy: Making Britain a cultural superpower · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, sadly. My dad's a cricket fan, so yeah. So Headingley was a good thing for him. And then he went off to be an academic, but got very involved in the race relations struggle, largely because he was married before he married my mum. His first wife died. And it was at a time when you couldn't, you know, you couldn't get a house if you're an Indian. My parents tell a story about how when they went to Manchester to look for a house, my mum went up first. There were lots of houses available and then they went back to the estate agents with my dad and suddenly it turned out there was nothing available at all. If you wanted to have a drink with his wife in the pub, they had to stage a sit-in to achieve it. And so he set up something called the campaign against racial discrimination card. Got very involved in the race relations issue, went on to work for Roy Jenkins to write the Race Relations Act.”
2024-07-14 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 85. Lisa Nandy: Making Britain a cultural superpower · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Through that. So, sort of this extraordinary series of events where this Marxist Indian rebel suddenly ends up. Yeah, yeah, in this sort of family. Big fans.”
2024-07-14 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 85. Lisa Nandy: Making Britain a cultural superpower · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I know. I mean, it is pretty impossible being in my family. I am not of that ilk, basically. And so it's always been a bit of a disappointment to my parents. But, yeah, and he got a double starred first at Leeds. But while he was at Leeds, his dad lost all his money. His business went broke. My uncle dropped out of university to try and support my dad. My dad got a night job. But they couldn't get through it. And he went to tell this professor Arnold that he was going to have to drop out. And Arnold said, move in with us. So he did. And I got my second family, the kettle family. You'll know Martin Kettle very well. I'm The Guardian.”
2024-07-14 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 85. Lisa Nandy: Making Britain a cultural superpower · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, my dad knew my granddad because my dad is an Indian. He is from Calcutta. He still calls it Calcutta, so I do as well. He came over to Britain to study under a guy called Arnold Kettle at Leeds University, who was a Marxist literary professor.”
2024-07-14 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 85. Lisa Nandy: Making Britain a cultural superpower · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because he had a big lawn. Yeah, he had a really big lawn, amazingly big lawn. It was like, look, you know, when you're four and you're growing up in Manchester, it looks like a park, basically, and your own park. And we would get in the back of that lawnmower in the trailer and he'd drive us around. So I just mean, I totally get what you're saying, but he wasn't that to me. He was just my granddad.”
2024-07-14 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 85. Lisa Nandy: Making Britain a cultural superpower · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But I do remember him very well. And to me, he was just my granddad. So we called him imp and I don't have any idea why. I think some of our cousins called him Grimp. And my sister couldn't say it. It was something, you know, one of those weird things in families where you have names for people and you have no idea where it came from. But he... I just have very, very vivid memories that he was the naughty one in my granny was the telling everybody off one. And it's things like we would disappear under the family dinner table when it was time for dinner and she wouldn't be able to find us and she'd be getting very cross and he and I would be hiding under the table and just mucking around and always he had one of those lawnmowers that you drive like it's just completely bonkers actually like the sort of thing that you see on football”
2024-07-14 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 85. Lisa Nandy: Making Britain a cultural superpower · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Joined Definitely. I remember it really well Because they're all kind of young. No one's ever called us lot the cool kids. Is this because we're in government? Is this what we can expect”
2024-07-14 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 85. Lisa Nandy: Making Britain a cultural superpower · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't know. I imagine you probably felt you were born to be in Downing Street. I think Rory and I very much had imposter syndrome. And, you know, especially being a woman walking in there, you walk through those doors at St. Stephen's entrance and you walk down a hall full of statues of men. You turn a corner and you walk down another hall full of portraits of men. And then you walk into the chamber, you sit down and you face certainly in 2010 conservative intake it was just wall-to-wall men. And I thought, where's everyone?”
2024-07-14 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 85. Lisa Nandy: Making Britain a cultural superpower · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I mean, it very much felt like that when I was a kid. So we'd go and see my grandparents every summer. They lived down in Surrey and we lived up in Manchester. And it did feel like stepping into a different world, if I'm honest. It was sort of magical, but it felt like a very, very different world, even the way that people spoke was very different. And my cousins and my uncle used to rib us mercilessly about our accents. And we were at state school and they were at private school. And it did. It felt very, very different. But it's also, it was an enormous privilege because I remember the first day I was elected to Parliament and you probably had this as well, Rory, but just that sense of imposter syndrome. And you walk in and you think you've... I don't know”
2024-07-14 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 85. Lisa Nandy: Making Britain a cultural superpower · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, so he was a liberal MP and then he was leader of the Liberals in the House of Lords. He fought in the war and I think that very much shaped his politics. He was one of the people who was involved in the liberation of Paris. He was on Monty's staff. So he was a pretty senior.”
2024-07-14 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 85. Lisa Nandy: Making Britain a cultural superpower · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Or should we film? And they made a decision to film, which was really hard. But actually, years later, I now represent some of the Hillsborough families, the amazing Margaret Aspinall and others who have fought that campaign for so long. And actually that footage was everything. I mean, it was decisive in helping them to achieve what they achieved. But, you know, those big calls with childcare and being the only woman in the newsroom, I'm not sure my mum has ever realised what a big deal that was and what a big impression it made on me and my sister, you know, that women can do it, do it, do it, but they can do everything, but they probably have to do it. They don't just have it. They've got to do it all as well.”
2024-07-14 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 85. Lisa Nandy: Making Britain a cultural superpower · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's a huge sort of tower block, concrete tower block, ran up about 10 flights of stairs. She was the head of news at Granada at the time. And my sister and I sat in a corner with some colouring while watching this horror unfold on the screens while she directed the newsroom. And I remember that not only were we the only kids there because she had no childcare, but and we were there till sort of, you know, four in the morning. until she remembered about us and got a cab to take us round to a friend's house so we could stay the night but she also was having to make really really big calls i mean the biggest i think was that she was being asked by the people who were there the cameramen who were filming should we help people”
2024-07-14 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 85. Lisa Nandy: Making Britain a cultural superpower · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“She was Granada. She was a current affairs producer. She is one of my great inspirations. People often say, who do you most admire in the world? And it's very much my mum. Her and my dad got divorced when we were, I think I was seven, my sister was nine. I have two very loving parents. We grew up in a single parent household. And that did shape me a lot, especially with the attitude of the Tory government at the time towards single mums. It leaves a very deep impression on you because you feel that you're under attack from your own government. But she was the only woman in the current affairs department at Grenada. I'll never forget the day that Hillsborough happened. We were little kids. We were out in Manchester with my mum having a day out and we'd parked at Grenada TV and people were hanging out of the window shouting, Louise, you've got to come up here. We ran up about 10 flights of stairs. You remember the old Grenada building?”
2024-07-14 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 85. Lisa Nandy: Making Britain a cultural superpower · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“She became a big fan of Dice. No, she's also really into football. I find it all very, very quite baffling, actually, but”
2024-07-14 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 85. Lisa Nandy: Making Britain a cultural superpower · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But because I do feel very strongly that there are sports that feel very, very forgotten and overlooked by their government, by their politicians. And it's where most of the country is. And so if that's where most of the country is and it matters to the country, I can't pretend to be an expert in the darts. But I am more than happy to go and have a pint and watch the darts. My mum is a big fan. Our new leader of the commons was a big fan. When your mum becomes a big fan. She just really likes the darts, but you know, one of our MPs, Satanette, Antony.”
2024-07-14 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 85. Lisa Nandy: Making Britain a cultural superpower · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Now he's wonderful Peter and he's a huge Formula One fan but I just had to go home and see my little boy I hadn't seen him for weeks actually because I've been out on the battle bus and he's nine years old and he just needed his mum and so Peter very kindly stepped up and the best thing about it is he thinks that I did him a favour because he loved it so much. But I said to the civil service team, I'd like my first visit to be to go and watch the darts. You know, we'll just go and look, Rory's like, I wish people could see Rory's face at this moment.”
2024-07-14 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 85. Lisa Nandy: Making Britain a cultural superpower · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, like I said to the civil service team when I was first appointed, I was meant to be going to Silverstone to present the trophy and I couldn't do it.”
2024-07-14 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 85. Lisa Nandy: Making Britain a cultural superpower · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Are the two types of rugby? There are, Rory, there are. But there's only one right kind of rugby. That's going to get me into trouble, isn't it? Two grey rubbish. I should, in full disclosure, I should say that my partner, Andy, is rugby union. So we're a divided house.”
2024-07-14 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 85. Lisa Nandy: Making Britain a cultural superpower · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source