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Feel good travel. Hello and welcome to the Red Box Politics

podcast on the Times I'm Matt Jorley.

Now this week we're not going to get bogged down in the detail of what's happening in Westminster.

Brexit rumbles on in Theresa May is coming to a street near you to bore you into submission.

But one of the things which I've noticed in the last few weeks is a sort of growing sense of the public saying

why can't Westmines have just sought this out and more than that why is Westmines are so

crap at the moment why are politicians not up to the job in front of them?

So we're going to try and unpick who it is that it becomes a politician,

why they do that in the first place, how they go about it,

and then the problems that they face once they're inside that Westminster bubble.

Joining me this week Isabel Harmon, assistant editor of the Spectator and the author of the book

Why We Get the Wrong Politicians. Sam Alvis is a former intern and researcher

for an MP in Parliament and Rob Wilson was an MP and government minister until he lost his seat in the general election in 2017.

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