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I'm here with Tom Baldwin, former communications director for the Labour Party under Ed Millamand,

and now author of Control Alt Delete, how politics and the media crashed our democracy.

I should also mention that Tom is a former hack. He's now

back working in politics for the People's Vote campaign here in the UK, but if we

could just start Tom with perhaps you telling us a little bit about your

background and how you came to this book which is obviously very very topical at

...