Is it time to abolish the monarchy - Recorded live at the Cambridge literary Festival
Daily Politics from the New Statesman
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The Importance of Alternatives to the Monarchy
I feel we have been incredibly badly let down by our political class. I don't want to see another of them having supreme power in a new kind of system. It's not where we are or some absolutely benign herbivorous, genteel, democratic, open-minded alternative - it is the alternatives which are an offer and they're the ones around the world. And that, I think, is the fundamental problem. An awful lot of people who might have been here today are not here today because they're at the Extinction Rebellion demonstrationDown in the middle of London. They felt totally let down by the Queen. She was too concerned for Charles to be named as her successor,
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