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Welcome to the Political Thinking Podcast. If you were listening last week, you would have

heard the newest Cabinet Member, Rory Stewart, declared that he wanted to be our next Prime

Minister. When Estem at Vapeared on this podcast, she too declared she wanted to be leader

if she got enough support. She now says she has.

Andre Ledson, who's done the podcast as well, says she wants the top job. So what about my

guest this week, the Home Secretary, Sajid Javid? Does he think he can overcome the odds against him

and be our next Prime Minister? You have to wait and see.

Coming up in a few minutes, the Sajid's friends call him and dresses head on. The haters on social

media who say that Britain is not ready for a Muslim Prime Minister.

I'll get it from the left, the far left, let's say, including lots of Asians who would say that

he's not brown enough. I'll get it from the right and the far right in particular saying he's too

brown. And so those critics, they've got a lot in common. They don't like me because of my color.

So stand by Britain to hear a lot of people's life stories over the next few weeks.

Oh yes. And also to see the wags, the wives and girlfriends who are already being paraded in the

colour magazines at the weekends, which hasn't impressed someone who might have a crack at being

Prime Minister herself. People have a different way of addressing this leadership issue.

I don't think we need to parade partners in the way that we've been seeing. I'm much more

interested in the policies that people want to bring forward. That was Amber Rudd, the work and

pension secretary, mocking her colleagues, Dominic Rab and Jeremy Hunt, who've recently had photo

shoots done with their adoring wives. The other photo of the week was that of the former Chancellor,

now editor of the evening's standard, George Osborne, and the very recently departed defence

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