Dr David Starkey
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 20 Jun
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I think that the actual machinery has gone wrong.
Other ways of explaining it are to look at a single big issue.
And people who I've been citing as agreeing with me, people like Harrison Pitt or Rupert Lowe, obviously put immigration, particularly illegal immigration, at the head of the list.
And other people say, actually, it is due to the shocking quality of our leaders.
And there is the evidence.
I mean, we're about to have our seventh prime minister.
in 10 years.
There has been nothing like this since the invention of the office of prime minister in the 1720s by Robert Auburn.
When you were saying at the beginning, I was very struck.
You said, you know, Stark is a historian.
We're not going to get him talking about the present.
What we're living through is an episode of astonishing historical importance.
The reason that I've involved myself in it is precisely because of my historical understanding of how all this stuff was put together.
So the moment when you can actually witness what, unless we do something about it, is its dissolution.
It's one of peculiar fascination.
But there is a reason why we've had this succession of failed premierships.
The job is, okay, many of them were inadequate.
Some of them were there for absolutely no purpose whatever.
Some they liked to raise a may.
Some were there with trying to do the right thing in the wrong way, which is Liz Strass.
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