S3, Ep2 How to Fail: Chris Patten
How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
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The Importance of Storytelling
I hadn't realised the Irish strain to your ancestry. I wonder if you feel that Irish sense of storytelling and an appreciation of performance and whimsy. It sounds like you did if you acted Oxford. The thing I felt most when I lost was huge sympathy for Lavender and my kids. They were angrier I think than I was because it was a pretty nasty campaign. Partly political people always have the impression that liberals were are incredibly gentle nice sort of vegan politically. It's not remotely true he'd always prefer a tough labor candidate. He says: 'The government was getting a hell of a pasting on environmental and on local government tax issues'
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