24: John Major: The Gulf War, Black Wednesday, and Populism (Part 2)
The Rest Is Politics: Leading
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The Growth of Populism
Populism isn't a political creed, it's a self-interested and selfish creed. It promotes its cronies not the people who are best suited to a particular job. Our politics has changed at the grassroots. Millions of people now have better things to do with their life than join the conservative Labour or Liberal parties. The House of Lords should be smaller because it is a revising chamber. And in terms of things like Prime Minister's nominations, I don't think you can stop them. What I do think is you should limit the number of nominations to so many for every year the Prime Minister has served.
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