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Do parents make the politician? Find out on the Today programme’s psychotherapy couch | John Crace

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Do parents make the politician? Find out on the Today programme’s psychotherapy couch | John Crace. Dad’s the word for Andy Burnham, so maybe all party leaders should be seen afresh through a Freudian lens Is this the sketch my father would have wanted? Not something I have previously given much thought to. He died 15 years before I even started this job. But my guess is that it is. He was the loveliest of men who only ever wanted for me what I wanted for me. He was stupidly proud of even my most forgettable successes. I still see.

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