Hope, charity and "lying bastards"

Chopper's Politics by The Telegraph

May 19, 202349:29News & Politics

Olympian James Cracknell joins Christopher Hope in the Red Lion to explain why he hopes become a Tory MP, appropriately in Henley on Thames, and how he would react if a certain blonde, former PM tapped him on the shoulde...

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