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Hi, I'm Anouche and I'm Avandou. Welcome back to Westminstery imagined,

a special series on the New Statement podcast that looks at how politics works and if it can be

done better. In this episode, we'll be joined by economist and former trader Gary Stevenson

and grassroots campaigner against air pollution, Rosamond Adoucensidebra, to discuss how to make

change outside Westminster. Now, Armando, why are we discussing this what we're calling parallel

politics? Parallel, I think, because especially with the last four or five years,

single issue campaigns have grown in prominence and I think more and more people are turning away

from the traditional party model of how politics works and injecting their passion for a topic

or passion for a cause into campaigning outside Westminster. Now whether that involves working

alongside elected officials, MPs, councillors or whatever or seeking to have some change,

raising awareness of an issue or a change in legislation from completely from outside getting

popular public backing, I think has become much more prominent in the last three or four years.

So I thought it'd be interesting to talk to two people for very different reasons,

with very different subjects, have decided to campaign outside the Westminster bubble.

Yeah, and we've seen so many examples in recent years of this. Jack Monroe, for example,

changing the way that the ONS is going to display how inflation is impacting people,

for example, Marcus Rashford campaigning for free school meals for children over the school holidays

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