Advice for Political Leaders

Tim Montgomerie is joined by Jenni Russell, Philip Webster and Hugo Rifkind.Jenni gives advice to David Cameron:Cameron needs to become a radical dynamic insurgent, not the calm patrician chairman he is now. He must fight internationally to get companies like Amazon and Google to pay proper tax, change the rules on benefit and housing so recent arrivals can't claim, raise the minimum wage and enforce it, and restrict the right of people from the EU's poorest countries to work here.Phil gives advice to Nigel Farage:Nigel. Having achieved your much vaunted tremor you now need to level with your party and voters. Otherwise a year from now there will be a lot of disillusioned people.Hugo gives advice to Nick Clegg:Nick, your only hope is absolute honesty. Start explaining what you've done in government, why you did it, and what else you'd have liked to do but couldn't. Most of all, start talking about future coalitions. Don't fall into the trap of merely sitting around, wistfully dreaming of what...

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Release date

Lydbog: 27. maj 2014