23: John Major: From Brixton to Downing Street (Part 1)
The Rest Is Politics: Leading
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The Loss of Practical Expertise in the House of Commons
I think there's been a great change on both sides of the House of Commons. And I think it's detrimental to Parliament on the Labour side. There are a lot of horny-handed sons of Toil who were in the Labour Party. They mattered because they didn't talk about things that happened in their constituencies as an abstract point. On the Tory side, you always used to have a fair smattering of people who'd been in business and run things at a high level or being in the armed forces was also important. We've lost that practical expertise. It exists in the House of Lords, but that is unelected,. And I think the fact that that expertise has lost in the
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