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🎧 WTF: WHAT HAVE WE DONE? WHY DID IT HAPPEN?

Robert Peston

05/05/2018

Audio from Chalke Valley History Festival 2018.
Recent political and economic upheavals have exposed deep divisions in Western society. In conversation with Roland Rudd, Robert Peston, ITV’s political editor, draws on his years of experience as a political, economics and business journalist to provide his thought-provoking analysis of the long-term forces driving our politics and his unrivalled insight into what the establishment got so badly wrong.

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