Marshall and Saga here, welcome back to The Realignment.

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So this week we're going to talk to Nick Timothy. He's a book is remaking one nation,

the future of conservatism, and it's now available in the US after coming out to very great acclaim

in the United Kingdom earlier this year. And this show is all about The Realignment. Now realignments

aren't just something that happens here in the United States. Realignments, political realignments

happen all over the world. And in the Anglesphere, what happened here in the United States with the

election of Donald Trump was preceded very much by the Brexit referendum by Theresa May and her

Prime Minister ship and Nick played a very vital role in all of that. Nick wears a lot of different

hats. He's a visiting professor at the University of Sheffield. He's a writer for the telegraph,

but he's best known for serving as co-chief of staff to the former UK Prime Minister Theresa May

during that very tumultuous period right after that Brexit vote. Nick is distinguished because he's

not just the typical make the trains run on time, chief of staff, but he's also a noted political

thinker who's put a lot of thought and work into building the idea of one nation conservatism,

which really seeks to build a broad-based coalition on the right across races, classes, and

different religious and ethnic groups. And the most interesting part of this episode then is the

discussion of political realignments in the many ways that the UK's Tory party under the leadership

of Boris Johnson was able to lean into these realignment trends and actually cut into the labor

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