they agree with me? i d spent a lot of time during the referendum campaign knocking on doors in sunderland, so the result didn t surprise me at all because time and again that sense of dissatisfaction about what was going on in the world, it went beyond our relationship with the european union. and part of it was around people feeling that they were being ignored by the government, that life was getting harder, that there was no prospect of anything changing, that, you know, thejobs that were there before, hard jobs, often jobs that left people, you know, pretty physically ill but were secure and had a decent level of pay, that they d gone. and there was so much more that needed to change. and obviously it came off the back of a lot of that kind of austerity agenda, particularly the post 2015. but in many ways they ve got worse still. you know, the pressures that people are under right now when it comes to the cost of living, all of the pressure that public services are under, gp appo
were dependent onjobs from the nissan factory, that was dependent on the single market. did you spend a long time afterwards thinking, why didn t they agree with me? i d spent a lot of time during the referendum campaign knocking on doors in sunderland, so the result didn t surprise me at all because time and again that sense of dissatisfaction about what was going on in the world, it went beyond our relationship with the european union. and part of it was around people feeling that they were being ignored by the government, that life was getting harder, that there was no prospect of anything changing, that, you know, thejobs that were there before, hard jobs, often jobs that left people, you know, pretty physically ill but were secure and had a decent level of pay, that they d gone. and there was so much more that needed to change. and obviously it came off the back of a lot of that kind of austerity agenda, particularly the post 2015. but in many ways they ve got worse still. you k
and there was so much more that needed to change. and obviously it came off the back of a lot of that kind of austerity agenda, particularly the post 2015. but in many ways they ve got worse still. you know, the pressures that people are under right now when it comes to the cost of living, all of the pressure that public services are under, gp appointments, you name it. it just feels that there s been a real breakdown in what people should expect from their government and often those people. the labour party as well for ignoring them because you, keir starmer said i know you voted one way, but we re going to ignore that. let s have another vote because you were wrong. we were right, you were wrong. which is an odd thing to do, isn t it? if you ve gone home to represent your people and what you actually said is, well, i know 60 odd percent of you voted for leave, but i m not in favour of it. i never told people they were wrong. that s not the way i approach politics. i could have gone f
knocking on doors in sunderland, so the result didn t surprise me at all because time and again that sense of dissatisfaction about what was going on in the world, it was it went beyond our relationship with the european union. and part of it was around people feeling that they were being ignored by the government, that life was getting harder, that there was no prospect of anything changing, that, you know, thejobs that were there before, hard jobs, often jobs that left people, you know, pretty physically ill but were secure and had a decent level of pay, that they d gone. and there was so much more that needed to change. and obviously it came off the back of a lot of that kind of austerity agenda particularly the post 2015. but in many ways they ve got worse still. you know, the pressures that people are under right now when it comes