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Welcome to the Restis Politics leading with me Rory Stewart and me Alisto Campbell and Alistair you're going to do our introduction today I think I have to

because we're talking about somebody who's well known as a sportsman and sport is not really Rory's forte but this is a sportsman who

having been possibly many would say the greatest British athlete of all time given how many Olympic and

world I sense I know the direction this is already travel no it's fine I'm

absolutely saying it says it is possibly the graceful, beautiful runner we've ever produced.

Winner of multiple Olympic goals, endlessly world European championships and then pretty successful

businessman and then had a period as a politician as a

Toria P I'm saying nothing we'll get to that then something happened to him, lost an election to New Labor, I believe they were called.

I think they were called that then. What do they call now? They called New New Labor.

And then worked as on the kind of staff side, chief of staff to William Hague

when he was Tory leader and then discovered a whole new career in as I guess we

call it as a sports politician, key figure in landing the Olympic Games for

London 2012.

That happened under a Labour government.

The Games actually happened under the coalition government and you were there right the whole way

through the lot now the head of world athletics top dog in the sport and tis

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