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Podcast: PastMaster: Reshaping History
Episode: Labour of Time: Changing British Politics Forever (ft. Tom GK)
Description: Blackpool, 1959. The Labour Party conference is in full swing, and comedian Tom GK has arrived with possibly the most cerebral plan in PastMaster history: rewrite British politics by fixing Labour's housing policy. His target? Right to Buy. His theory? If Labour had adopted it first, Thatcherism would never have taken hold. One surgical intervention, two decades before anyone's heard of Margaret Thatcher.
While most time travellers try to invent the iPhone or punch a dictator, Tom goes straight for policy. The Game Master is visibly unimpressed: "Bloody hell, Tom GK, of all the exciting, dangerous, game-changing times...