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Keir Starmer is being held back by the "fringe obsessions" of the civil service, according to his former director of strategy Paul Ovenden. So how can the Prime Minister tackle the "weirdness" of Whitehall?
Ed Vaizey unpacks the politics of the day with Cindy Yu and Michael Binyon.
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