00:00I'm going to resist being drawn into politics, process, personalities, because I want the
00:06contest to be a battle of ideas, not just a clash of personalities or an obsession with
00:11kind of political drama. Yes, I have the support I need to be on the ballot. Yes, I think we
00:16will
00:16be better served if that is a contest and a battle of ideas, not just of personalities.
00:22And indeed, I don't think we should allow kind of petty factional interests to get in the way
00:27of what I think is a necessary and urgent debate about how progressive politics can shape
00:31this country for the better, because we know what the alternative is. We saw that writ large
00:36in the results of the most recent set of local elections, Scottish elections and Welsh elections.
00:41And there has not been nearly enough conversation about the fact that for the first time in our
00:46country's history, nationalists are in power in every corner of the United Kingdom. And I think
00:50that is something that should exercise progressives and where Labour should recognise that we are the
00:55only force in British politics that is capable of seeing off reform at the next general election,
01:00but also the only force that is capable of binding together the United Kingdom.
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