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With 8000 451 votes, the leader of the UK Independence Party, Diane

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James! Diane James is the

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new leader of Ukip. But will serial resigner

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Nigel Farage be able to stay out Ukip has a new boss,

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and she's already told Theresa May to "get on with" getting

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the UK out of the EU. She seems to be already putting

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old noses out of joint. You appear to have been replaced by

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a coffee break. Yes. Well, I suppose... Well, I don't know. It is

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a change of regime. And I just don't understand what is happening.

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Sir Bradley Wiggins, Russian hackers and banned substances that

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The woman who helped write the doping rule-book

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And it's not just medical records hackers have released this week.

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Is privacy becoming a thing of the past?

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And if it is, is it in the public interest?

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The UK Independence Party has a new leader.

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But with Brexit secured and former leader Nigel Farage

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apparently intending to take a more conventional approach to resignation

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than he did last time - or the time before that -

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Diane James, the party's MEP for South East England,

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today emerged victorious after a leadership contest that was,

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for the most part, as devoid of the usual rancour

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So who is she and what's to become of a party that has

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David Grossman spent the day at the party conference

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It is an absolute pleasure to announce, with 8,451 votes,

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the leader of the UK Independence Party, Diane James!

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As Nigel Farage supposedly bowed out for the third time,

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his replacement this time had a message for the Prime Minister.

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From one grammar school girl to another...

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Stop the faff, stop the fudge, and the farce.

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That clearly went down well in the hall, but of course,

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a fact Diane James was reminded of repeatedly

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during her first press conference as leader.

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You are replacing one of the three, four or five best-known faces

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And for a lot of voters, this might be the first time

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they have become aware of Diane James.

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How would you introduce yourself to the British people?

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Exactly what you see in front of you, an MEP.

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Justice and Home Affairs spokesman for Ukip.

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Held Theresa May to account for two years.

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that she is also a pretty ruthless political operator.

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No sooner had Diane James been elected than she removed

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Neil Hamilton from the list of speakers on tomorrow's agenda.

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The former Conservative minister is blamed by many

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he has been replaced with a coffee break.

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It's a change of regime, and I just don't understand what's happening.

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What is your reaction to her election as leader of Ukip?

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Well, I was prepared to work with her and,

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as part of the team leadership that Ukip now needs,

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But we are a political party, not a fringe group

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One of those Mr Hamilton came into conflict with

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To add to the drama, today she defected to the Conservatives,

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It's going to be hard for them to differentiate themselves

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because she's doing wonderful policies that are likely to appeal

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How dysfunctional has the party been?

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you wouldn't want baby-sitting your dog, let alone running for office,

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And it's a shame, because what I've seen over the years

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is the talent and future promise of the party

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essentially being excised from the party.

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# Who do you think you are kidding, Mr Cameron?

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After all of those last-minute agenda changes,

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you'll be glad to know the Ukip choir, with their rendition

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of Who Do You Think You Are Kidding, Mr Cameron,

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will be appearing in tomorrow's event.

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The fact that it's still David Cameron in their song

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suggests a party that may be struggling to come to terms

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with the new post-Brexit referendum political reality.

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now that Britain has voted to leave the EU?

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One academic believes that Ukip can appeal beyond Brexit.

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There are broader issues around inequality, disadvantage,

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left behind groups, particularly white working class communities

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that feel as though they're not getting heard in modern Britain.

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you can see in many other European countries,

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successful populist movements, Five Star in Italy,

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So I think there is room for a party like Ukip.

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But it will have to resolve its internal problems -

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lack of unity, no money, dwindling membership.

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There is no gratitude and little loyalty in politics today.

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Having delivered on its signature policy, some in Ukip

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might have been expecting to be riding high right now.

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But no party has a right to exist, let alone thrive.

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So, where do Ukip voters want the party to go next?

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Secunder Kermani has been to West Bromwich,

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West Bromwich West was one of over 100 seats where Ukip came second in

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last year's general election, making inroads into traditional Labour

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heartland. But with Brexit now a reality, not a campaign slogan, what

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next for Ukip? We paid the local branch's social club visit, and it

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wasn't your average pub. We have the pub on this side, and on this site,

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we have the shop. And this is also the Ukip social club? Do they prefer

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the beads or the public? They prefer both. People from all walks of life

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come in. That is why you have the purple beads! Ray Crawford is a man

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of many beads and many hats. Amongst other things, he is a Ukip council

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candidate and he wants the party to position itself in the middle of

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British politics. The working class now are people earning ?15,000 to

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?80,000 a year, and are all struggling. Nobody is looking after

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them. Labour is looking after the people who don't earn the ?15,000,

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and on the other side, the Tory party is looking after the people

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who earn more. There is a massive gap in the middle. And do you think

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that without Nigel Farage, you can have the same popular appeal ever

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again? I am still dreaming of the fact that he will turn around

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tomorrow and say I am sorry I resigned, I am coming back! Voters

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here in the Black Country firmly backed Brexit, but many Ukip

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supporters doubt it will be delivered. I don't believe we will

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be out of Europe until I see it on paper. You voted Ukip last time, are

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you going to vote for them again? Yes. Why? They haven't done the job

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yet. But the government says it will take us out of Europe. But have they

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done it? You don't trust them? No. So is the party just a one trick

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pony? Now that the UK is leaving the EU, what is the point of Ukip? Ukip

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of 11, because they are going to keep the government to the candle,

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if you like, make sure we don't get Brexit light. I think Ukip has

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served a fantastic purpose so far, but that is not the end of them by a

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long way. It is fantastic today that we have got Diane James, who got 48%

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of the vote. She has a clear mandate. The disenchantment many

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Ukip voters have with mainstream politics remains, and that may leave

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many of them to stick with the party. But Ukip will have to define

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itself on more than just Brexit to broaden its appeal.

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Secunder Kermani reporting from West Bromwich.

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He defected from there to Ukip two years ago.

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He's the party's economics spokesman and sits in the Welsh Assembly -

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Let's start in Wales, because you have a new leader nationally. You

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have an old leader locally, Neil Hamilton. They already appear to be

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at loggerheads. Does someone like you now have to pick a side? Well, I

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pick Ukip's side and I try and work with people across the party. We

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have to build a team. We have to reach out and make use of all the

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talent within the party. It is fantastic that Bayern has won this

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contest. -- Diane. She has beefed your leader of the speaking roster

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and replaced him with a coffee break. You can call for unity but

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she doesn't appear to be minded to deliver it. There has been a bit of

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tension between Neil Hamilton and Nathan Gale, but Diane has come in

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as a new leader and the conference has been prepared and there have

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been proposals over what to showcase. Ultimately, Diane has just

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been elected as a leader, and if she wants to have a particular programme

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tomorrow, that is her right. But for people who don't follow these

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matters closely, Nathan Gill was the former leader of Ukip in the Welsh

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assembly who now sits as an independent after falling out with

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Neil Hamilton, but remains a Ukip MEP? Yes. We got seven members of

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the Welsh assembly elected. But he sits as an independent. Can you tell

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us more about Diane James? You saw my colleague trying to put a little

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flesh on the bones, but apart from the sort of detail we could have

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found on her business card, he was not successful. Do you know her

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well? I don't know her well. I know Diane. I have a professional

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relationship with her. The thing I would emphasise most about her is

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that like me, she has fought a by-election. And she came

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extraordinarily close to winning Eastleigh from a strong local Lib

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Dem campaign. She understands how to appeal to voters in the middle, had

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to expand our appeal. You are giving a CV, I am looking for something

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more weighty, something about her that we don't know. What she does

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is, she engages with voters. She goes out and understands what people

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want, speaks to people and reflects on what they say. She puts forward

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an attractive image of wanting to change things to benefit people in

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this country. In Eastleigh, she was nearly elected. But there is one

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candidate who has done even better and got elected, Douglas Carswell.

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She has not spoken to him for three months. Do you know why? I am not

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sure exactly... She has not spoken to Ukip's only MP. I think Douglas

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and Diane have a working relationship. I have been at

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meetings where they have worked together. She said one of her

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priorities will be to meet Douglas and discuss how best she works with

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our Ukip parliamentary party. The party's former PR, a few moments

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ago, described Ukip as being roughly half of them so dysfunctional that

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she wouldn't let them babysit her dog. Does that tally with what you

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recognise, bearing in mind that she has been with the party longer than

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you? That is a little unfair. Alex has done some work with me and

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occasionally put me forward to appear on programmes like this. I

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wish her well and far be it from me to criticise someone for choosing to

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move from one party to another. But this notion of dysfunction, some of

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the names and personalities of the party you joined, Suzanne Evans

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wrote the manifesto that you fought on in the last election. She has

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been essentially eased out of proceedings. Stephen Wolfe, for

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reasons that remain opaque, couldn't stand at all. Many felt he was Mr

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Farage's preferred candidate, and we are left with this question mark

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hangover Diane Jones, who you tell us wants to change things and

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reaches over to engage people. I don't imagine there is a politician

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in the country who would not seek to fit that description. What does she

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seek to change? What would be at the top of her to-do list? You mentioned

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Suzanne Evans and Stephen Wolff. I would like to see Diane make sure

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both of them play leading roles in the party. We had a superb manifesto

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that Suzanne wrote. I developed a lot of those ideas in a Welsh

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context for the election we won. Diane has to explain in her own

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words, and with her own passion, what our party is for. We have

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succeeded in getting out of the European Union. Very briefly, can

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you tell me what you think the party is for now that the eye bit of Ukip

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has been achieved? I think it is to get back our democracy. I was

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against the EU because I am a Democrat, not because I am a

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nationalist. We don't just want power back from Brussels to Britain,

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but then getting that power down to local communities and giving people

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back the sense that they are in charge of their destiny and have

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influence over their own lives. In your programme last night, people

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were paying two and a half times the price of electricity for 50 years

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because these corporate interests decide what is going to happen for

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them. We have to look to ordinary people in this country and try and

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make sure people have the opportunity of a better life, not

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having costs piled on them by a political elite and cartel that

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needs to be shaken up. And it is Ukip that speaks for the ordinary

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person, not for the corporate elites to make this a better country.

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But not necessarily speaking with one voice just yet. Mark Reckless,

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thank you. Few sportspeople have been more

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strident in their anti-doping In a sport beset by suspicion,

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accusation and actual offences, the Tour de France winning cyclist

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and five-time Olympic gold medal winner has always made much

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of his desire to cleanse his sport of the stains left by the disgraced

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doper Lance Armstrong. This week, though, a group

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of Russian hackers leaked the stolen medical records

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of the World Anti-Doping Agency, WADA, and Wiggins's name

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was among those found to have special medical exemptions

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to take banned substances. And while there is no

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suggestion of any wrongdoing, the nature and timing of those

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exemptions have posed His is a sport long tainted

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by illegal drug taking, so it has fallen on the likes

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of Sir Bradley Wiggins to try We are the ones picking up

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the pieces are much so and having to, I suppose, convince people

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that the sport has changed. It is difficult to convince some

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people, it really is, because of the precedent that has

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been set and so ingrained I haven't got the answer on how

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to do that other than to go out there and keep doing what

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I am doing, you know. Now, however, it is Sir Bradley

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who faces scrutiny, although there is no suggestion

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he has broken anti-doping rules. This week's revelations revealed

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that Wiggins had obtained an official exemption known as a TUE

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or therapeutic use exemption, to use Sir Bradley suffers from asthma

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and has a pollen allergy as well. This drug, which is banned

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during competition is used to treat serious allergies,

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but it is also known to be abused by athletes to help them

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recover and burn fat. Sir Bradley's former cycling team,

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Team Sky, applied for him to use a significant dose of this drug,

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just days before the start of Grand Tours in 2011 and 2012,

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when he won the Tour So why is Sir Bradley Wiggins facing

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questions when he has Well, by contrast, Lance Armstrong

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was a cyclist who for years abused corticosteroids and the system

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of medical exemptions that can He got a retrospective

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exemption that subsequently admitted he was using it

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for performance enhancing reasons. Team Sky have a well know zero

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tolerance policy towards drugs, but they have admitted

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it was a mistake to have given freelance work in 2011 and 2012

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to a doctor who was subsequently banned for life for doping

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violations in a previous role. Among various violations,

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Geert Leinders had admitted questionable quarter corticosteroids

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exemptions. In his autobiography,

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Sir Bradley says, I have When asked about this

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apparent contradiction injections revealed this week,

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a spokesman for Sir Bradley Wiggins everyone knows Brad

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suffers from asthma. His medical treatment is BC

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and UCI approved. Team Sky told us: Applications made

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by Team Sky for TUEs have all been managed and recorded in line

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with the processes put in place Joining me now is Michele Verroken,

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a former director of ethics and anti-doping at UK Sport,

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who designed and implemented current internationally accepted

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standards for doping control, Thank you for joining us. Forgive

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me, if this is a really silly question, but if I take this

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particular substance or any form of corticosteroid because I have asthma

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or allergies, does it retain its performance enhancing capabilities?

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The question is really whether some of the substance on the prohibited

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list do have performing enhancing benefits at the therapeutic dose. We

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may be talking about the overuse of medicines and the inappropriate use

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of medicines when people do not have that particular medical condition.

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It is re-difficult to answer your question about whether there is some

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correlation between you having this substance and suddenly becoming an

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elite athlete. I am not suggesting that that I have two cyclists here.

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I think this is what the average fan of the sport, and it is not just

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cycling, there are two cyclists, one of them has hay fever and the other

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one doesn't. That means the fellow with the allergies is allowed to

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take this drug which it is believed can help burn fat and help with

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recovery times. There are suggestions it could be useful in

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the mountain stages of a tour. The other cyclist doesn't have allergies

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so he can't take it. Is there any advantage accrued by the one who can

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take the substance? The athlete with the allergies has to deal with the

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allergies so quite honestly, no, is the answer, if they are dealing with

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allergic reactions, they are looking at a treatment in order to be able

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to continue to compete. But there is a perception, and that is the

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trouble, perception. Anyone who thinks that someone else is getting

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an advantage might themselves be tempted to cheat or to say, well, I

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think I've got a bit of an allergic reaction, can I have that? How is

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that police? That is one of the critical issues around this story

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that in actual fact, if someone is using a medication and they believe

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that it is going to help them, others look to see why they

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shouldn't be using those kind of treatment, even if they do not have

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that ailment. That is where the ova medicalised at an off the support

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that we do give to elite athletes has really let down the fairness of

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sport, because, if you have got the doctors who are prepared to

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prescribe... So we have to much information? We may have to much

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medical help going into elite sport that is actually wrong league

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supporting athletes. Doctors looking for loopholes? Exactly, and it's

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without medical conditions obtaining these substances and the

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verification. What do they have to do, just as a bit? No, there is a

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rigorous testing system. For something like asthma, I would not

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like to be... I was not making light of it. There is a bronchial

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provocation test and that is not nice for any asthmatic. As long as

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everyone around the world is being put through the same rigorous

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testing and that is what we cannot guarantee, that the standard

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operating for the approval of their repeated use exemptions is not

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without some degree of bias, some degree of lack of independence in

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the decision-making and it takes time for those who are in the layers

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of the system that are in place, to actually reject that application. It

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may be too late. This is going to involve quite a feat of imagination

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on your part, but imagine I was an elite athlete, can any doctor

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provide my diagnosis which I take to the governing body and say I am

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allowed this? Not quite any doctor. It would have to be someone who has

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though medical expertise. That there is no licensing by the body, it is a

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professional qualification they need? Not yet. It is at medical

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qualification but it is peer reviewed by other doctors who would

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look at your case independently and also anonymously and would come to

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the conclusion did that diagnostic evidence show that you needed that

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substance and there was no other permitted alternative. Would it be

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easier to get rid of the secrecy and have everything made public, it

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everybody was using every substance on the record. I am not a fan of

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this because I do think what we have seen just recently is a major

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privacy breach. We have seen athletes who trust the anti-doping

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system and share it with approved people, it has let them down. I

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don't think athletes should be afraid to have medical conditions

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and seek help for any illness they may have, but it is really not the

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case that we should be making every athlete now demonstrate their whole

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medical history. Michele Verroken, thank you. That leads me neatly to

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my next guest. It is almost as if we planned it.

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Athletes are not the only ones to have endured the leaking

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Private emails from former US Secretary of State Colin Powell,

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in which he was less than flattering about both Donald Trump

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and Hillary Clinton, are private no more.

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And donors to the Democratic Party, who expected their largesse

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to remain secret, have also been outed.

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Tonnes of information released by hackers. How much should be released

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and how much is in the public interest?

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Professor Jonathan Zittrain is faculty director

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at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University

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Professor. We seem to be moving quickly from a world in which

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whistle-blowers and hackers seem to act because they felt they should,

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into a world in which people are accessing and releasing this

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information simply because they can? Well, I think that is right. It is

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not simply because they can, because they may have their own agendas in

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mind, and that may mean the axis two e-mail and selectively release what

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they like, to create a mosaic. Each piece may be true but where the

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overall collection ends up suggesting something false. What

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strikes me is how much the public have got used to it. We take it as

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course that the private e-mails of a private citizen, essentially talking

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to his friends about his opinions of the candidates, we take it that we

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are entitled to see that when it is left on the doorstep of news

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organisations. You say there is no moral compass on the part of the

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people releasing the information. Obviously, we should all be a little

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bit careful about our private information but none of us can be

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completely safe? May be true but it is quite dangerous to think the end

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of the discussion is well, that will teach him to use e-mail. Electronic

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communication is now part of all our lives. I don't think we want to

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return to information being conducted in a park as if it was a

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drugs transaction. Or having to become official selves when you

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become US Secretary of state, I guess you are that forever and have

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to start acting as if you are on a news programme even when you are

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talking to your friends, that seems corrosive for a free society. The

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cessation of privacy once you become public. Is there anyway to stop it?

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Well, I think there may be some longer term remedies. The fact that

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we still have e-mail in the form it was in the 1990s, it is time to

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figure out ways to upgrade it. That could include having our trove of

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e-mail going back years, that might be accumulated in an online account

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because the storage is cheap, it should not be ready to leak like the

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exon valve these through a couple of keystrokes for hacker. There may be

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a way to have what they call glacial storage. Eyebrows get raised

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digitally speaking if someone is asking for everything. What would

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you consider personally to be a legitimate hack, so to speak? There

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are times when a system itself has enough issues, enough corruption.

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Anything that gets into the hands of the press, as the fourth estate, as

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a function of whistle-blowing, might be a candidate to say, while the

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means of getting it was a little unusual or even bad, it is sunlight

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being a disinfectant. But this is not corruption of public official,

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this is private correspondence by a private citizen. Then if we say it

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may be private correspondence that you are a public figure, that links

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to celebrities with leaks of their photo account and saying, they

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decided to be celebrities they had it coming. I think that is a

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dehumanising attitude and it will mean the only people who seek the

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spotlight will be people who are in new to having their private cells

:29:49.:29:52.

completely dissected and may not be representative of the range of

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people we want taking public office. A lot of the most prominent

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celebrities on the planet seem to be not just comfortable but committed

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to sharing every aspect of their existence with their fans. As you

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suggest, there is a form of Darwinian selection going on. Maybe

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those who would pursue the exposure are ones who for whatever reasons

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crave it, but even they may be carefully cultivating an image and

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have smaller and smaller spaces in which to explore, identify and

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express their true selves. When that is the case, I think the opportunity

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to bring one humanity into a job or a roll, or to be a role model that

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way, becomes quite limited. I think to allow our cynicism to start to

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equate genuine whistle-blowing with any form of hack of anybody, and

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just treat it as any other form of data, as if we were reading a

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history from 100 years ago, that strikes me as very corrosive to a

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free society. Professor guest-macro, thank you. That is almost it for

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