‘We had money! It was brilliant!’ Margaret Hodge on Labour governments, life as a migrant and quitting as an MP

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After 30 years in parliament, the former minister will stand down at the next election. She talks about her battles with Jeremy Corbyn, her fury at Priti Patel and Suella Braverman, and the awfulness of austerity

‘Being an immigrant put me in the Labour party, it made me anti-racist, it’s driven my politics’ … Hodge. Photograph: Suki Dhanda/The Guardian

All this, she says, defines how she feels about what currently passes for the national conversation about immigration, and some of the people who have made the loudest noise on the subject. “I can’t bear it,” she says. “And I tell you what I really can’t bear – it’s Priti Patel and Suella Braverman. I’m an immigrant. They’re second generation. And I can’t bear it that they pull up the ladder behind them.

I’m an immigrant. Priti Patel and Suella Braverman are second generation. I can’t bear that they pull up the ladder behind themwas elected, she began her journey through no fewer than six ministerial posts.

She says they told her two things: that the children and young people who said they had been abused were just “naughty kids”, and that they had been bribed by journalists from the Standard. Neither was true. “I believed them,” she says. “And what I didn’t do, which I should have done, was talk to the kids. It followed me for a long time.”

 

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