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The art of the political interview

Westminster Insider

CHAPTER

The Complex Relationship Between Politicians and Interviewers

Brian Walden and Margaret Thatcher were friends and ideological bedfellows. He would do sympathetic meaty interviews with her on his big Sunday politics show where a lot of her ideas were shaped and thrashed out. In the end, Walden chose journalistic ethics and himself over his political values and his friend Margaret Thatcher. The once impregnable Thatcher began to falter. She never spoke to Brian Walden again.

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