Jeremy Corbyn revealed for the first time what the government had told the opposition about his coronavirus strategy in the early months of this year.
Speaking to the economist and Grace Blakeley for the launch episode of his podcast “A World to Win,” the former Labour leader said he won an official government briefing on the pandemic that consisted of a “conference” on collective immunity, which he called “absurd.” “and a “eugenic” formula “based on” allowing other people to die.”
Corbyn also said Boris Johnson warned that he “needed to present the licensing program” at a meeting between the two, which Corbyn described as “strange.”
He attributes the “strong” tension of former shadow chancellor John McDonnell and the unions to discharge government concessions to staff and businesses without which “people would be even worse.”
Corbyn interviews to highlight how coronavirus has “widely exposed and written” “inequality in our society.”
It condemns the “welfare of corporations” and argues that “if we invest in giant corporations … then we also appoint government-appointed administrators to make sure those corporations operate in the public interest.”
In a wide-ranging discussion, Corbyn revealed his frustration with the Labour divisions of Brexit, saying that he “almost felt like the last user to protect the party’s position” and lamented “time and power faithful to almost repetitive debates.”
He also tells Blakeley of his goal of announcing the end of the dream on the street when his first act in the prime-school primary won the 2019 general election.
Reflecting on his time as leader, Corthroughn says he is proud of his apology on behalf of the Labour Party to the families of the army for the “bad and illegal war in Iraq,” with the 2019 Labour manifesto as the greenest through Friends of the Earth and comes a “radically different economic agenda.”
In his non-public reflections on his media quotes, Corthroughn admits that “the way I was attacked by the most competitive media took me by surprise.” And it shows the effect of this strain “day after day,” telling Blakeley that “the way my circle of relatives was denounced and mistreated … has an effect.”
Corthroughn thanked his neighbors, who were disturbed by the hounds camped outside the Corthroughn space in Islington, for their “incredible solidarity” in sending him a “beautiful and massive card signed by almost everyone on the street”.
In another part of the interview, the former Labour leader also asked the Labour Party to be a proud socialist party, subsidized 0 net broadcasts until 2030, asked for the cancellation of the world’s South debt, and described the Black Lives Matter motion as “one of the hardest things that has happened in a long time.”
A World to Win is a new podcast through Grace Blakeley, from Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialization, and Tribune magazine.
The first episode was released at 7 a.m. on Wednesday, August 19, 2020 and will air through https://tribunemag.co.uk/a-world-to-win
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