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that i m about. respect is, i hope, how people work with me, how i try and work with them. it s a good word, and i think it s a good comment. that is my approach. we might even get that tent open again and you can have some of your critics in it, as well as people who are. well, yeah. iain anderson, chair of stonewall. thank you for coming on political thinking. thank you. when stonewall chose as its chair, someone who was seen in westminster as a smoothie, as a fixer, as a pr man and a lobbyist, some thought the cynics, you might say, that this was just putting a new gloss, a rather more comfortable language on top of stonewall s existing positions. 0thers hoped that iain anderson would actually lead stonewall in a new direction, willing
week is the new chair of stonewall. he s iain anderson and he s got a cv that might surprise you. he s a lifelong conservative. he went to school with michael gove in aberdeen and he ended up running a leadership campaign for ken clarke. he s also a westminster insider who s operated behind the scenes at very high level with ministers of all political parties. he set up and he now runs one of the largest lobbying firms in britain cicero. he now fears that we are entering an american style culture war and we might in britain be going back to the future in a way that makes him, as a gay man, deeply uncomfortable. iain anderson, welcome to political thinking. thanks, nick. good to be with you. now, after years of operating behind the scenes in westminster, you and i have come across each other over decades