I take it as a credit to Tom Nicholas that he accepted the invite. For all the "he's not left enough" criticism the boys will get from having him on, Tom's going to get so much more hassle from people bleating "you appeared on a tankie podcast."

But they invited him and he accepted, and because of that connection a lot of minds that were closed to are going to be opened at least a little, and whenever that honest, communicative kind of connection happens, people shift left. Nichols is too astute to not have know that.