Rory Stewart
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Okay.
And you went to the University of Essex.
And I know that you are both – you've studied economics and taught economics all your life.
But you've also – you decided that actually economics there wasn't very good.
The teaching wasn't very good.
And you went into maths.
Why doesn't it apply to real life?
And of humanity.
So far.
I hope you're right.
I'm going to say something now which is going to really endear you to our more left-leaning listeners and viewers, of which we have a fair few.
Is it right that basically you left Britain in the end because Margaret Thatcher won a third term and you couldn't face the idea of her still being here?
So you went to Australia and then you left Australia because they then started to turn to the right.
So are you sort of driven around the world by politics?
So what was the right war back then?
I can imagine that.
Absolutely in my politics.
Which was always a sub-current of that.
Don't be defensive.
No, no, defensive.