Absolutely packed house for @lisanandy in conversation fringe event 
Lisa Nandy on SPD coming first: “it’s been a really stunning result for our sister party- it’s really great news...I was on a panel with Olaf Scholz last year when it didn’t look like SPD had any chance. I think the biggest lesson is never, ever believe that it’s not possible.”
“We think there could be a general election in 2023. That means we could be in power in 18 months time. That’s the lesson I take from the German elections, how quickly things can change. That’s what we should be thinking about.”
Nandy says she has a meeting with @trussliz in a few weeks and she intends to tell her that the government needs to stop arms sales to Saudi Arabia immediately.
Nandy says Labour Party staff and members gave up holidays and time in summer to help those in Afghanistan and was bizarre Dominic Raab didn’t do the same.
Nandy: “For me the big dividing line between Keir and Boris Johnson is honesty, principle, integrity.”
Nandy says reinstatement of the Erasmus scheme “is exactly the sort of thing we’d be aiming to do.”
On Brexit Nandy says that it’s about using Johnson’s deal “as a floor, not a ceiling” and expanding/enhancing it where there’s clear mutual interest in doing so.
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