Rory Stewart

Obviously I could do that in order to donate, but I think the bottleneck that we have is much more about ideas, much more about ability to speak freely

than it is about money.

And so, yes, it's this very striking thing, seeing so many people I know become extraordinarily wealthy, but it's an unexpected benefit of the pledge that I took.

That sort of temptation is off the table for me.

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welcome to the rest is politics it's an emergency podcast on the local elections with me rory stewart and me alistair campbell is the emergency or is it live it's live is it also a live emergency anyway it's not one of our normal things because we're having this amazing local election in britain which just to remind people could be huge change for the way the british electoral system works yeah got a new system very new system in scotland and wales and

And then I think the story... Slightly better, I guess, is that John Curtis was looking, the famous Sir John Curtis, the great pollster,

seemed to be suggesting that his polls were thinking SNP will do very well in Scotland, but they won't quite get a majority, which won't be enough for them to push for a referendum on independence.

But he thought it's possible reform could come second, and Labour and Conservatives neck on neck on about 17 seats.

So doing better presumably would mean Labour coming second rather than equal third.

The one that's interesting also is because broadly across Europe, the parties on the right, so parties like the AFD in Germany, Le Pen, I mean further right than the conventional right-wing parties, tend to be getting between 20% and 30%, don't they?

And at the moment, of course, people like me who are very disturbed by the rise of the AFD in Germany,

Very disturbed by Fraser Nelson reporting that Robert Jenrick was talking about essentially tracking down and getting rid of 2 million people from Britain, presumably predominantly Muslims who reform don't like, take comfort in the fact that they're getting 25, 30% of the vote, that they're not the majority of the vote.

Just quick on expectations.