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Liz Truss became Prime Minister “for all the wrong reasons” | Audio podcast | New Statesman
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32:51Now PlayingLiz Truss is “emblematic” of a political class that desires “power for exactly the wrong reasons”
With the Conservatives on to their fifth prime minister in just six years, Rachel Cunliffe talks 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.
Klaas argues that our systems of leadership selection are insufficient, claiming that “nobody actually really knows Boris Johnson, nobody actually really knows Liz Truss”
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