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🗓️ 11 June 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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As dozens of politicians prepare to enter high office for the first time, Matt speaks to former top civil servants Sir Alex Allan and Alun Evans, alongside former ministers Dame Margaret Beckett and Sir Alan Duncan, to find out what pitfalls they need to avoid when they're given the keys to government.
Plus: The Times' Political Editor Steve Swinford explains what we learnt from Rishi Sunak's Conservative manifesto launch.
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1:16.3 | hypothetically you're about to become a government minister having never done |
1:20.6 | it before lots of people called Alan and Margaret Beckett. That's coming up in |
1:24.6 | our big thing. Before that some analysis of Rishi Sunak's big manifesto |
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