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The Rest Is Politics: Leading

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The Politics of the Tory Party

I always find myself defending conservative MPs, not so much on their policies, but just on the fact that it's a tough life. The problem is that people are tend to be more sympathetic to people from their own political party when they're the victims of this. I'm trying to educate Rory to get a bit tougher in his politics. But he's got a toughen up with this stuff. Yeah, unfortunately. And that's the thing, you do end up wearing a, you wear a psychological suit of armour. That's the way that you deal with it. It's deeply humiliating. They're almost psychopaths in their ability to discover your weakest point. Only if you let them

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