Why is Boris Johnson waging a culture war? With Rory Stewart and Kim Leadbeater
Daily Politics from the New Statesman
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How Did You Navigate That by Election?
Stoking a cultur is a lot cheaper than upping universal credit. And i think that's also true, probably, of the way in which we're getig a lot of rhetoric around the warran ukrane. You get a lot of talk as though somehow britain was fighting a new crane. That too is probably a way of distracting from the hard yards of actually trying to deal with a cost of livings crisis. But people can therefore fall back on these cheap acies. I came to cover the by election, and it did feel like quite a toxic one to me. So i tried to try and coalesce people around at a common vision for the constituency.
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