How to get better leaders – with Brian Klaas
Daily Politics from the New Statesman · The New Statesman
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Show Notes
With the Conservatives on to their fifth prime minister in just six years, we talk to the political scientist and author Brian Klaas about the leadership problem in politics: why the top jobs attract the worst people; why it was a good thing that Truss was able to fail so quickly; and what we need to do to defend democracy.
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