Sean Rameswaram
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4 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 9 Sep
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But something else is going on now, where because he is a prospective future prime minister now, he is facing a level of scrutiny that he hasn't faced before.
With all due respect, what's it got to do with you?
All sorts of stuff is going on in British politics.
It sounds completely wild.
People are looking at the situation, this run of prime ministers, this ascendancy of Nigel Farage, who's a bit of an incompetent and a bit of a firebrand, I suppose.
But they look at the situation and they say,
the UK has become ungovernable.
What would you argue the situation is, Tom?
Look, I would argue that it's parliamentary democracy at its messy kind of fundamentals.
You know, Britain is a country
like many countries in Western Europe, which is struggling to work out how it's going to make its way in the world in the 21st century, in a world where so many of the assumptions which we have come to take for granted no longer appear to be holding.
a united states that is a trusted ally that is changing free market economics you know global free trade uh appears to be ending and you add into that social media ai revolution
all of this, and it feels like actually I think the turmoil in British politics is just a reflection of a kind of turmoil in the world and in the global economy.
You know, you can see the same sorts of questions going on in Canada and Australia and France and Germany, and I don't think anyone really has the answers yet, and Britain certainly doesn't.
Find Tom's work at newstatesman.com.
The UK is going through some of the same frustrated political motions we're seeing elsewhere, sure.
But there is something exceptionally British about this mess, and we're going to hit that next on Today Explained.
Ding dong.
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