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There's a battle for the soul of this country now as to what sort of country do we want to be

because that toxic divide, that decline with reform, it's built on a sense of

grievance, grievance politics, identifying something real, for sure, but relying on the problem

existing in order for their politics to persist. And it's a very different choice. The choice

before the electorate here at the next election

is not going to be the traditional Labour versus Conservative. It's why I've said the Conservative

party is dead. Centre-right parties in many European countries have withered on the vine. And the

same is happening in this country. It's a different proposition and therefore becomes a binary

argument as to the future of our country. That was the Prime Minister speaking at the Global Progress

Action Summit, exciting, a meeting of global progressive leaders on Friday, build as a progressive

fight back. An attempt, something we've talked about on this show a lot, to reframe

his politics and governments as a moral and political repost to the radical right, rather than

merely an attack on their competence. One of the problems for Stama is that there aren't that many

examples of success he can look to in that endeavour.

Someone who, as you'll hear, isn't short of advice of a diagnosis of the ills of liberal politics,

is Leo Varadka, the former Taoiseach, Prime Minister of Ireland.

In so many ways, Varadka's story embodies that liberalism, though a member of

Fina Gale, broadly speaking, Ireland's centre right party, his assence as a half-Indian, gay man

to the head of government of what was once thought to be one of the most socially conservative

countries in Europe surprised the world, and seemed to embody the triumph of

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