the way i express some things did cause hurt to people, and i never meant to do that. the labour party is a party of working class people and it did amazing things. to give working class people those things they didn t have before. what s interesting, talking to you about these things when you were on the front bench under ed miliband is arguably, whyjeremy corbyn left you on the back benches. there were people at that time who called you a red tory, suggesting you weren t welcome in the labour party. i find that very difficult. i find it very difficult because ijoined the labour party when i was 17. i ve been in the labour party for 25 years now. i love the party and its history, and when people said that to me, it s like,
on the defensive. the tories have already claimed some crucial pieces. have the labour party got the moves up the sleeves in here to take advantage? to seize victory from defeat? next week, they have their conference. we might get the first answer to that. that s it from this edition of political thinking. thanks for watching. hello. it s going to feel like the weather has basically flipped into full on autumn mode overnight, which it kind of has. through the weekend we sat on some very warm air, this week it s going to be much cooler and some spells of heavy rain to come. through the weekend
it s my family. don t tell me i don t belong here. i found that very hard. afterjeremy corbyn became leader, to people shouting that at me, i find it very difficult. you look quite emotional just remembering that. yeah, i found it very difficult because i love the labour party and i ve been delivering leaflets and knocking on doors for 25 years. people who in many cases have justjoined telling me that this wasn t my party. i guess they would say you are part of the nando s five rising stars. luciana was hounded out of the party. you think i feel a bit emotional, imagine how she felt.
her great uncle was a labour mp. she is from the party, from the labour party. do you want to welcome her back? i would love to have luciana back in the party. she is still a friend of mine. whether she would want to come back, you would have to ask her. do you feel you got the labour party back? i stayed in the labour party because i believed in some of the darkest hours, i think anti semitism was our darkest hour, i believed there was a way back for labour. some people made different choices, and i understand why they made them. luciana felt she was hounded out of the party. i feel like we ve turned a corner on that, and i m proud of the small contribution i guess i have made to that.
from it or admired about it? i was polticised because there were so many cuts. our library was turned into a classroom because there was more students than space, and there were never enough textbooks. i learned the conservative government we had didn t care enough about schools like mine and the kids i grew up with. and that s why ijoined the labour party. it s those values that still drives me. but there are people who say we have to learn something. what i would say, i wrote a book about women in politics, and obviously, i wrote about thatcher in that book. it made me think when i was growing up, i knew i didn t like her but i never doubted that a woman could lead and get a topjob,