Listen "How to fix everything that's broken"
Episode Synopsis
Sarah Southern, who worked with David Cameron, and Tom Hamilton who worked for 10 years for the Labour party, with Ed Miliband and Jeremy Corbyn, join Calum Macdonald to discuss why everything's broken and how to strategise around fixing it. Peter Murrell, the former SNP Chief Executive was arrested and released pending further investigation; Tory MP Scott Benton offered to table parliamentary questions, leak a confidential policy document and lobby ministers on behalf of gambling industry investors who proposed paying him thousands of pounds a month, an undercover investigation for The Times has found. Strikes are ongoing (one analysis suggests the level of strike action thats underway or pending puts us back to square one in terms of scale), police and fire service racism, misogyny, homophobia; the police are also failing to attend 120 burglaries a day, and our rivers and beaches are filled with literal sewage.How do politicians strategise around being the person / party to fix everything that’s broken? How can you establish a sense of direction? How do you get the cabinet to sing from the same hymn sheet and present a united front? Sarah and Tom explain, as well as reminiscing about preparing for PMQs, and the most divisive referendum there ever was (on the alternative voting system, obviously). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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