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  • Labour leadership battle.

  • Now, Jess, of course, is in the running to be the new labor later.

  • The other candidates are Lisa Nandi, Emily Thornberry, Rebecca Long Bailey and kissed Arma.

  • He wants to leave the Labor Party Now that we've all got questions for you, Jess eso one by one, we're gonna go through in this political grilling, Alex first.

  • So election night, when the exit polls came out, Who was it that broke the silence on the labor?

  • What's that?

  • Find my phone.

  • I could genuinely check.

  • What can you tell on what the first person said?

  • Was it?

  • Like I see someone who's Jeremy Corbyn just with the little monkey of its hands over.

  • I'm not gonna What's that group with Jeremy Corbyn?

  • I'm afraid to say so.

  • I want you a part of weight.

  • Like but, you know, Yeah, I'm part of one where there were loads of labour MPs that had lost their seats a lot.

  • Well, yeah, to be honest, that did happen afterwards.

  • Yeah, there's Caroline Flint, right?

  • I think in the Times today there was an interview and it said, Oh, you know, she got booted off all the what's up group Oh, brutal, isn't it?

  • It's absolutely brutal.

  • It was just like, Well, I'm gone then, while I'm gone sort of thing coming on.

  • It's on the What's up grapes.

  • Imagine having a job interview in front of, you know, viewing audience.

  • Jeremy Corbyn wasn't in that groups.

  • He wasn't saying it because I can imagine you'll just sat there.

  • Just waiting for Jeremy is type in thinking we owe your question.

  • Well, I've gotta say this question, actually wth e the unions and the control of the units or the perceived control of the unions within their selection off the labor leaders.

  • Do you think that's something that needs to be on the stored more by the wider public?

  • Well, I mean, for the first time ever in this contest, it's like a very serious I'm sorry.

  • This is meant to be like about sheriff, isn't it?

  • Really?

  • Is Belen way?

  • Just watching.

  • Wondering which union wth e truth is, is that for the first time in this leadership election, the unions have a role in who gets onto the balance.

  • So they have a direct role in you know who the candidates can be, and so do CLP.

  • So constituency.

  • Labour Party's at grassroots levels and that's before members even get a say in the ballot.

  • And I think that I don't think there's anything particularly to be worried about because the union movement is the backbone of the labor movement.

  • I think that people think that the union barons and there's loads of nefarious thing the Dustin he's asked because people who were not labor supposedly I like I am.

  • So I kind of my little understanding about it.

  • You taught me to go.

  • Yeah, but the unions don't let McCroskey runs everything you think you know, that's not really the case.

  • Oh, no, I think I think that you know the unions.

  • For some reason, people think it's based on basically sort of Liverpool in the 19 eighties.

  • Everyone thinks of the unions A.

  • Really.

  • I think that people think that they really like and we call them union barons as well as if there's some sort of like, weird hierarchy and they're all having a big meeting with light levels of wooden men on tables moving them around.

  • They're just people who defend workers rights.

  • Andi, like, take the government to court when they do about things.

  • I don't think Don't be too worried about the unions.

  • In fact, joined one drawing the Labour Party.

  • I've got one question for you.

  • So this'll leadership.

  • Whole contest will be done by what?

  • April 4th April 5th.

  • Yeah.

  • So the next day there'll be a new labor.

  • Later, you could be kissed.

  • I'm Rebecca Long Bailey.

  • And we thought that whoever it is the following day well, labor get it shit together and start fighting amongst become a great opposition or you gonna just like fighting and the rest of us.

  • I mean, I can't speak for the entire Labour Party and no matter who wins, some idea on Twitter will be really upset about it.

  • I have literally no control over the Twitter accounts off every single member of the Labour Party as a party.

  • Can you make me this promise that regardless of who comes becomes leader, you'll all get your shit together.

  • Oh, absolutely.

  • Because you know You know what if the Labour Party doesn't get it shit together?

  • It doesn't.

  • You know it doesn't deserve to exist anymore on DDE.

  • This is it sort of existential for the Labour Party.

  • This contest Andi, the last election We have basically got a chance.

  • Thio, get our act together.

  • Take on the worst government in so so long.

  • You know what?

  • The last Tory government is?

  • Worse than what Thatcher did In lots of cases, she wouldn't have dreamed of doing some of the things that the last that David Cameron What you said before his body stones is a very good communicator.

  • And they won the election by a single message.

  • It get Brexit.

  • So now you can you can go into the next election saying getting all shit together.

Labour leadership battle.

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