Dr Steve Davies on the Independent Group and a Realignment of British Politics

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Dr Steve Davies is Education Director at the Institute of Economic Affairs and we were so pleased to speak him during this fascinating juncture in British party politics. Steve has been talking about a realignment of UK party politics for years and he predicts that the recent goings on with The Independent Group is just the beginning. Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@failinghuman) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians.

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0:00.0	Hello and this is a show for you.
0:01.0	I'm Francis Foster.
0:05.0	I'm Constantin Kitchen.
0:07.0	And this is a show for you if you're bored of people arguing on the internet over subjects
0:14.0	they know nothing about. At trigonometry we don't pretend to be the experts, we
0:18.9	ask the experts. Our brilliant expert guest this week is the head of education at the Institute of Economic Affairs.
0:25.0	Dr Stephen Davis, welcome to Trigonometry.
0:28.0	Glad to be here. Thank you for having me.
0:30.0	Well, thank you for coming and what a time to be here because exciting things are happening in British
0:33.8	politics and you've been talking about this for a long time and before we get into
0:37.4	that just tell us a little bit about who you are what's been your journey
0:40.7	through life so that us and our viewers know everything by?
0:43.3	To start at the beginning I suppose I was born in Scotland in a place called Grangemouth
0:48.8	went to university in Scotland at St Andrews. I'm a historian by trading, although I talk a lot about economics these days.
0:56.4	My family roots are all in Manchester and East Lancashire, Burnley, to be precise, and
1:01.4	Newton-Heath in Manchester, lived in Manchester since 1979,
1:06.4	staunch city fan.
1:08.4	I used to work at the Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester Polytechnic as it was before then, but a few years ago I kicked
1:15.6	the world of academia into touch and I went full-time into the think tank world which I'd
1:19.6	been involved with for quite a long time actually, and I worked first for a think tank in the United States
1:24.9	called the Institute for Humane Studies and then at the Institute of Economic Affairs for the
1:29.8	last nine to ten years or so. And I do other kinds of freelance work as well. So that's
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