BBCNEWS Political Thinking with Nick... June 4, 2024 19:39:00
Park royal, near where i lived, was the biggest engineering establishment in western europe. that is in north—west london. yeah. your family were irish catholics. yeah. your dad worked in a factory as you did. yeah, my dad was a proper paddy — as i'm not ashamed of saying. he went down the pub a lot, he was a labourer working on building sites with the original john murphy, the big contractor. he went in factories because it was easier. he went in the post office because being a shop steward left him a bit vulnerable. when he joined the post office, he came out of his probation and he went...
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