Dominic Sandbrook
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 1 Jul
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People aren't interested anymore.
What it would require would be for an elected government to decide that it wanted to spend its five-year mandate on an extremely controversial referendum.
An unpopular one.
An unpopular one, that all the indicators show that they would lose in changing to a republic.
I mean, I don't think there's ever been a majority in the history of opinion polling for changing to a republic.
So that would have to be a Labour government.
In doing so, even if they won...
they would immediately shed a large proportion of their own heartland constituency.
That is to say, working class, small C conservative, patriotic, monarchist Labour supporters.
Would any Labour government take that risk?
It's unthinkable, I would say.
Well, I think I don't agree with Tom on this.
I think we're clearly responsible.
And I think the reason for that is there is a move generally away from a literary culture.
So you see the sales of books generally in decline, reading in decline.
And the reason for that is so many people say, well, actually, you know, I wanted to find out about the Spanish Civil War.
But you know what?
I'm going to spend an evening watching YouTube clips about it.
I'm going to listen to a podcast when once I would have picked up a book by Hugh Thomas or Paul Preston.
And I think it would be mad for us to deny that's happening.
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