This episode on standards in UK public life features Sam Power of the University of Sussex

• Sam Power is a Lecturer in Corruption Analysis
• He is the author of Declining Standards: Has Britain Entered a ‘Post-Nolan Age’? In Political Insight
• He is also the author of the book Party Funding and Corruption, Palgrave, 2020

The prior episode with Sophie Hill discussed in this episode can be found here: https://anchor.fm/dr-peter-finn/episodes/Chumocracy-UK-Prime-Ministers--Cronyism--and-the-Pandemic-evrflt

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Original music by Sovereign Heights