In Britain and America, people are beginning to realize maybe a politician like Boris Johnson's not going to deliver all that they hope for. There are moral qualities required in political leadership, which really matter and competence matters. The experience I thought would convince the majority of Americans that Trump cannot be a competent head of the executive is very disturbing. It looks, however, such a vagaries of the American system that he might still become the nominee even though he has only, let's say, 35% of the Republican primary electorate.
In this last episode of Martin Wolf’s series, the FT’s chief economics commentator sits down with the FT’s executive opinion editor, Jonathan Derbyshire, to give his concluding thoughts on the state of the world’s democracies. Drawing on arguments in Martin’s latest book, The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism, and his conversations in this series, they discuss what role citizens’ juries could play in rectifying some of what has gone wrong in the past couple of decades.
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This episode is presented by Martin Wolf. The producer is Laurence Knight. The executive producer is Manuela Saragosa and the sound engineer is Breen Turner. The FT's global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley.
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