Hello and welcome to the Political Party podcast. This episode features Kate Andrews, Associate

Director at the Institute for Economic Affairs. You've probably seen Kate on Politics Live,

Question Time, pretty much every political TV and common a new show going. She won the

Rising Stars of this new era of a new class, a new generation of political pundits. Kate and

I had a question time together a couple of years ago and despite, well we agreed on some things

and disagreed on others, but I think it's always so reassuring when you can disagree and get on

and be civil and I've been dying to get her on, so it was great to finally get her on the show

and talk about her own politics, what the Institute of Economic Affairs does, where it stands on

some of the key issues, how it goes about its work, the influence it tries to have, because

all these think tanks out there on left, right and centre all trying to have influence, all trying

to shape the world in which we live and it's great just to get under the surface and see what these

people think and how they try and achieve that change and to do it crucially, civilly and respectfully,

which is a key tenant I think of this show. So it's a brilliant chat. Kate is absolutely

reasonable even at times when I disagree with her, she puts her case in such a reasonable way

and I didn't realise this until she said it towards the end of the interview, so he's 29,

which is incredible. I mean there are so many guests I talked to on here that have long bright

futures ahead of them, but you get the sense when you talk to Kate, you're talking to someone who

could go and do such incredible things, whether you agree with her or not and you have to respect

the ton of an ability that people have in able to make a case, make it persuasive, make it

reasonable. So it's a fascinating interview with someone who understandably and justifiably has

already become a star on our screens and on our airwaves, airwaves. I don't know why I said it

like I was from Somerset, she's been a big fan of big star on the airwaves. Please enjoy Kate Andrews.

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