He said living as openly trans is "a way better situation now than it was when I came out 33 years ago." "I'm going to be standing for and being a trans person is not going to be an issue, I don't think," he said. Izzard, who identifies as transgender, said he is also pleased with the progress that's been made on LGBT issues since he came out in the late 1980s. It's our continent, and our future is there, so I want to fight for it." "It's inevitable that there's going to be another referendum. And the young people who are around today, they will be here," he said. "People get older and they get more reactionary and more right-wing and they want the 1950s back - well, they will pass away. He said the tide of public opinion is changing, especially among British youth. It has no traction politically, but that's why it's there." "And that's got completely lost in the mush. "I'm going to keep pushing for that, because I understand what we're trying to do: we're trying to stop world wars, that's why we initially set it up," he said. Izzard said it's important to safeguard the European Union from "right-wingers" who "are trying to smash it up." "A bunch of countries in a continent choosing to try to live together and work together in some type of form. "If you think about it, it's the most advanced political thing that's ever been done by humanity," he said. The longtime activist said that whatever happens with Brexit during the next two years, he plans to make the European Union the central issue of his political career. "You can be going along and talking about the Greeks and dinosaurs and god and none of that dates, then you say, 'So what has Donald Trump done? What has Theresa May done this week?' and then you're watching it five years later and going 'Oh, they did that?'" The comedian brings "social politics" and "historical politics" to his act - European history and Izzard's own atheism are frequent subjects in his specials - but there are two reasons he doesn't like to address current political events in his stand-up, the first being that it "dates very quickly."
Izzard has been involved in political advocacy for over a decade, but despite his off-stage activities, the performer said he is wary of including current events-based material in his stand-up comedy. Izzard said once his political career is over he'll "come back and do more." "I do like doing stand-up and I'm going to do it forever, even though I'm going into politics," he said. Izzard said releasing the set allows him to focus on the future, including a new stand-up special, an international tour and his political advocacy, which he hopes to parlay into becoming the first openly transgender member of Parliament after 2020.