{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/636a624de56de500124abcca/666f70c322cd57001264a77f?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"From Labour Left to New Labour (w/ Chris Mullin)","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/636a624de56de500124abcca/1718579363637-35c1bceb3e08a485af9d9b34c064f72b.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>My episode last week with Jeremy Gilbert got a very positive response - so I thought I’d do another episode on Labour Party history.</p><p>Chris Mullin was a key figure on the Labour left in the 1980s, but by 1994 he backed Tony Blair as Labour leader - and ended up taking a role as a junior minister in his governments.</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode I ask Chris about that transition, and we also discuss Chris’s prolific career as a journalist and writer…</p><p>Chris has written four novels, included “A Very British Coup. He’s also published four volumes of diaries, a memoir, and an expose of the miscarriage of judgement suffered by the Birmingham Six - who were falsely convicted of bombing by the IRA.</p><p><br></p>","author_name":"Michael Walker"}