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Jan 2022
39m 44s

Political Dynasties

THE TIMES
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Carole Walker, sitting in for Matt Chorley, speaks to historian Brenda Van Coppenolle, and Conservative politicians Geoffrey Clifton Brown and Nicholas Soames about political dynasties in the UK.


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The Times' Rachel Sylvester and the New Statesman's Rachel Cunliffe discuss schools, covid and France.


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