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The Influence of Parliament on MPs' Personality
How much do you think Parliament actually influences the personalities of MPs? You've said earlier that people's values and stuff don't change massively throughout their lives, but I feel in my own very much vibes-based experience of working in Westminster for kind of eight years or so. I've definitely felt like, watch some people get weirder and weirder, you know, the more time they kind of spent in Parliament. Is my vibes- based assessment correct in any way? Like, actually, is there any way of kind of studying, again, nature and nurture what you suppose? I actually think that I think that's highly unlikely. Highly unlikely that the political environment changes
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