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Wes Streeting on class, trans rights and binge drinking

The News Agents

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The Importance of Class in Politics

I'm surprised you didn't want to own it earlier. I think my anxiety was that the book isn't just my story. But actually the reaction's been great and I think we've all sort of breathed a bit of a sigh of relief about it. What is the political message of the book? The only sort of really hard political bit of the book comes at the end in the conclusion where I basically say, look,Hard work matters, individual effort counts, and that isn't acknowledged enough on the left.

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