
EXTRA - The Emily Maitlis interview
Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government
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The Overton Window
I remember during the Conservative Party leadership process, all the candidates, apart from Dominic Rob, ruled out the idea of pre-oguing Parliament. By September, they were doing it. So you want to say the overton window, don't you? And I think that was it. The overton window normally talks about societal shifts,. As a way of saying, oh, no, something that wasn't acceptable 30 years ago, like gay marriage has now been very much accepted and is more understood. This was a window that didn't actually, I don't know what people were thinking at that time. But there was that sort of weird, slimy shift of people who could suddenly have
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