23: John Major: From Brixton to Downing Street (Part 1)
The Rest Is Politics: Leading
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The Importance of Language in Politics
As a child, Ian McLeod was truly inspiring to me. He didn't just talk about political things, he talked about the morality of politics. And then I met him and was similarly inspired, metaphorically sitting at his feet when he was making a speech. You left school before you were 16, you had three O levels and yet you're sounding like somebody who's already decided as a teenager, I'm going to go into politics. That was what I wished to do. The politics you lived on your wits and what you did throughout your career in a way that doesn't apply elsewhere. For someone like I had no sponsors, no backers, no money, no background, no
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