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Show 318 - *Philip Hammond - LIVE*

The Political Party

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How to Be a Better Prime Minister

I looked at many Prime Ministers in action and thought, I'd have been a better PM than these people. You don't want to brag about your strengths, but you've got to know yourself what your strengths are. And you've also got to know what your weaknesses are. Until Theresa May became Prime Minister, one of the key characteristics of Prime Ministers was their ability to perform at Prime Minister's questions. It is performance art. But Theresa actually did very well. In her first election she was scoring extremely good opinion polling without ever doing that performance art of Prime Minister questions. She just batted the questions back, you know, dead bat. My ambition was to be Chancellor. That's

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