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In Conversation with Sir Antony Seldon

Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

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The Unsuited Prime Minister

The Shannon has also manifested itself with, there he was, this figure who you conclude was wholly unsuited for the job. With the pandemic, one of the great crises facing any administration since 1945 and again, you uncover chaos. He didn't have a settled view on how to deal with COVID. And he more than he did on Brexit or anything else. So he flipped flopped around, a lot depended on what he thought the telegraph wanted. The telegraph was always in his mind. His aides could always get him to change his mind by saying that Cameron and Osborne would be laughing at him - which they were. Everything was not serious and everything was a joke or a

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