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‘Be seen looking like a prime minister’: David Frum on how to be an effective opposition leader

Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre rises during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on June 15, 2022. Justin Tang/The Canadian Press.

This is the fifteenth episode of The Hub’s bi-weekly series featuring Sean Speer in conversation with leading author, journalist, and thinker David Frum. The two discuss “Frum’s commandments” on what opposition party leaders in parliamentary systems — think Keir Starmer in Britain or the next Conservative Party leader in Canada — should be doing in preparation for a general election.

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