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🗓️ 6 November 2018
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Matt Chorley is joined by Hugo Rifkind, who is worried about the vast power that vastly rich people today can have over our politics.
In the week of the death of Jeremy Heywood, Rachel Sylvester wonders whether the civil service can withstand the huge pressure of Brexit.
And Joe Jervis, co-author of Spirit of Britain, Purpose of Labour, says we are a nation divided between Communitarians and Cosmopolitans.
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| 0:45.0 | Avanti West Coast feel good travel. Hello and welcome to the Red Box Politics Podcast and The Times I'm Matt Jolly |
| 0:59.0 | before we begin a reminder to the podcast onAS, iTunes and now on Spotify. |
| 1:03.8 | It's particularly worth subscribing this week to make sure you don't miss a bonus episode. |
| 1:08.0 | More on that later. |
| 1:09.5 | But first of this week's episode, I'm joined by Joe Jervis, co-author of spirit of Britain purpose of labour, which |
| 1:15.3 | cause the unity between the communitarians and the cosmopolitan's. |
| 1:18.3 | In the week of the death of Jeremy Haywood is the former Cabinet Secretary, Rachel Sylvester |
| 1:22.1 | worries for the state of the civil |
| 1:23.4 | surface, but first Times Columnist Hugo Rifkin on rich men in politics. |
| 1:28.0 | An obsessive focus on Russia or on data obscures the real Arran Banks story which is about the vast power that vastly |
| 1:36.0 | rich people today can have over our politics. Once such people were constrained by having |
| 1:40.9 | to suck off to politicians who may have |
| 1:42.6 | secretly despised them. Today they can do it for themselves and I'm not sure |
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