Advice for Political Leaders

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News, Politics, News & Politics

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🗓️ 27 May 2014

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Tim Montgomerie is joined by Jenni Russell, Philip Webster and Hugo Rifkind.Jenni gives advice to David Cameron:Cameron needs to become a radical dynamic insurgent, not the calm patrician chairman he is now. He must fight internationally to get companies like Amazon and Google to pay proper tax, change the rules on benefit and housing so recent arrivals can't claim, raise the minimum wage and enforce it, and restrict the right of people from the EU's poorest countries to work here.Phil gives advice to Nigel Farage:Nigel. Having achieved your much vaunted tremor you now need to level with your party and voters. Otherwise a year from now there will be a lot of disillusioned people.Hugo gives advice to Nick Clegg:Nick, your only hope is absolute honesty. Start explaining what you've done in government, why you did it, and what else you'd have liked to do but couldn't. Most of all, start talking about future coalitions. Don't fall into the trap of merely sitting around, wistfully dreaming of what...

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0:59.9	My name is Tim Montgomery and this week I'm joined by Phil Webster, Hugo Rifkind and Jenny Russell.
1:05.6	And we are going to have a slightly different edition today to give advice to the four
1:10.7	main party leaders because some of you have think that we have just lived
1:14.3	through a very wet bank holiday weekend. In fact we have lived through the most
1:18.6	momentous political times for a century bigger than the elections of Atley, Thatcher and Blair. Well that's
1:25.3	Nigel Farage's conclusion because he thinks when about a third of the
1:29.5	British people actually bothered to turn out a quarter of which voted for him. He regards that
1:34.4	as the biggest political earthquake since 1910. So perhaps our advice to Mr Farage should be not
1:40.4	to be so cocky, to Mr Cameron not to be so posh
1:44.9	mr clag not to be so tory and mr milliband not to be so weird but I promise our
1:50.4	advice will be a little bit more sophisticated than that.
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