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The five things an opposition party must do: interview with Tim Bale

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What makes for a successful opposition party? How much of that success is down to the leader? How much does policymaking matter in opposition? Wnat question should be asked the Lib Dem leadership election hustings? These are just some of the topics I chewed over with opposition expert Professor Tim Bale in this episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts.

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Show notes
  • Tim Bale's previous appearance, talking about how you can persuade someone to join a political party.
  • Tim Bale's excellent, re-arrangeable book on Ed Miliband.
  • Recovering Power: The Conservatives in Opposition Since 1867: the book from which the list five things opposition parties must do came: Amazon / Waterstones.
  • The Liberal Democrat election review.
  • Tim Harford on how to avoid making mistakes.
  • Turning Japanese: the excellent book that didn't foretell the future.
  • That Norman Lamont photo (with a young David Cameron in the background).
  • The Politics of Competence by Will Jennings and Jane Green: Amazon / Waterstones.
  • Will Jennings on Twitter.
  • Jane Green on Twitter.
  • Tim Bale on Twitter.
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