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In Conversation with Sir Antony Seldon

Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

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Boris Johnson and the Sunac Period

Bizarrely underexplored area of what is required for leadership and power. How did a figure like that wholly unsuited for leadership rise to the top? How did he avoid scrutiny for so long? What are the constraints on a prime minister, especially one that has one big as Johnson did in December 2019? There were virtually none - there was one for Johnson that was Dominic Cummings and he sacked Cummings. I'm still really keen at some point to interview Cummings who I think I misread when he was kind of in the shadows. They tend to be more complex than caricature suggests. But anyway, there we are. We are all living through the consequences of what Anthony and I

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