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24: John Major: The Gulf War, Black Wednesday, and Populism (Part 2)

The Rest Is Politics: Leading

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The Role of Boris Johnson in Modern Life

There are lots of questions to be asked about politics, but I don't pretend to have the answer. There's a question of protests and whether they should stop people going about their normal jobs. And is it really right to have absolutely freedom of demonstrating at the expense of innocent citizen whose life is totally disrupted by it? That's a debate to be had. Do you think standards in public life have been so damaged that we can't recover from what's gone on? Or do you think actually there is hope that we can get back to a politics? I do. Nothing is irreversible. We have had times before when Parliament and public life has fallen into disrepute and been restored. But

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