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Podcast: Veterans In Politics Podcast
Episode: Ben Obese-Jecty the infantry officer veteran of Iraq and Afghan on outdated diversity terms
Description: Send us a textVeterans In Politics- Season 6, Episode 3- Ben Obese-Jecty the infantry officer veteran of Iraq and Afghan and former Conservative Parliamentary Candidate.We sat down with Ben at Conservative Party Conference 2022 to discuss his time in the infantry during the most intense period of war fighting for the British Army, having deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan, and we also get an interesting perspective to diversity in politics, as a black man who has fought in elections. We cover all of this, including standing for election against Labour front-bencher Diane A...