Hello, my name is David Ronserman and this is Talking Politics. This week, the last

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under the heading general, questions about predictions, inspirations and the presidency

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As before, the questions are being put to us by our producer, Catherine Carr. We had so

many questions and there are so many we'd like to have answered and we didn't get to.

We are holding them and we hope we're going to get a chance to get to these later on.

If you stick with this episode at the end, I'm going to tell you a little bit more about

our plans for the summer and for the autumn. But before that, here's Catherine.

I'll just close more doors.

The first question in the general section is this, could Trump only happen in America

or is it possible for Britain to have its own TV star term politician and if so, what

side of politics would British society give birth to?

My feeling about that question is that the TV bit could British politics have a TV star

termed politician. As many people have pointed out, we've got one in a way, not really,

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