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Podcast: Past Present Future
Episode: The History of Bad Ideas: Party Members Choosing Leaders
Description: For our penultimate bad idea in this series, David talks to Robert Saunders about what’s gone wrong with British politics since party members got to decide who leads the party – and in some cases who gets to be prime minister. Is the problem the principle of the thing or the people who end up in charge (Corbyn, Truss)? How did reforms undertaken in the name of democracy manage to undermine democracy? And what are the alternatives?A new bonus bad idea is available to accompany this series: David talks to Lucia Rubinelli about what’s gone wrong w...