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Political Thinking with Nick Robinson

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The Cap in the Market for a Popular Political Figure

I've known Boris Johnson since our early 20s and he was always a Liberal Conservative. I think resigning from Parliament is a less good career move than people think. Andy Burnham, for example, this brilliant career move of becoming Mayor of Manchester. It's meant that he wasn't actually in Parliament at the time when the leadership was passing back to the soft left candidate - Kirstalmer. And you can also end up for years, either for years, having no office at all, or becoming Minister of Fish when you've got no interest in it. You did run for Brent South, East against Ted Livingston.

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