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Dominic Lawson interviews people who have changed their mind on controversial matters.

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Why I Changed My Mind: Series 4

Why I Changed My Mind: Series 4: Gisela Stuart

25/07/2018

Gisela Stuart

Series 4

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Gisela Stuart reveals why she changed her mind on the EU and led the campaign for Brexit.

Gisela Stuart explains why she switched from supporting the EU to leading the campaign for Brexit, and she reveals the personal challenges that arose from changing her mind.

Dominic Lawson hears from people who have changed their mind in a fundamental way on issues of great public significance. 

The former Labour MP Gisela Stuart was ardently pro-EU and built a political career helping to promote British membership. But she changed her mind about the whole enterprise and became a key national leader of the Leave campaign to take Britain out of the EU. In this programme she reveals the true story of how her views were transformed and she then faced the uncomfortable challenges of campaigning for an issue that set her against friends, colleagues and family. 

Producer: Jonathan Brunert.

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

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