In America they call it the Deep State. In the UK we know it as the Establishment - the few thousand people who work in Whitehall, big business, the media and lobbying who shape how the country is run.

They come from the same background, went to the same universities and have the same outlook. 

In the latest Ayes to the Left podcast Labour’s Jon Trickett tells how the system is rigged against outsiders.

He says those at the top of the country come from the same gilded circle and have no idea of the lives of people outside that orbit.

The Shadow Cabinet Office minister, who is responsible for drawing up Labour’s plans for power, says a Jeremy Corbyn government is ready to take on the Establishment.

And he speaks of his own experience of being an outsider in a world dominated by people with a sense of entitlement. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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