How to get better leaders – with Brian Klaas

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🗓️ 31 October 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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With the Conservatives on to their fifth prime minister in just six years, we talk to the political scientist and author Brian Klaas about the leadership problem in politics: why the top jobs attract the worst people; why it was a good thing that Truss was able to fail so quickly; and what we need to do to defend democracy.

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0:28.4	Hello, I'm Rachel Cunliffe, and on today's New Statesman podcast,
0:40.1	I'm talking to Brian Klass,
0:41.8	political scientist at UCL,
0:43.6	host of the Power Corrupts podcast,
0:45.3	and most relevantly for today,
0:47.5	author of the book Corruptible Who Gets Power
0:50.3	and How It Changes Us.
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