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6: David Lammy: The Future of Foreign Policy

The Rest Is Politics: Leading

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The Color of My Skin

Faraj: I think the color of my skin puts me right into the fulcrum of those worrying populist trends that are happening in countries like ours. There has been a growth of extreme politics on the right and on the left, potentially, that really flows out of the 2008 crash. And it's definitely something that a next labor government will have to do a lot to alleviate, just as the Democrats have tried in the United States. Faraj: The number of people in extreme poverty in Africa has gone from 170 million in 1980 to about 470 million today.

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