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Radio 4,4 mins

Should politicians be randomly selected?

Westminster Hour

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Dr Peter Allen has told The Westminster Hour that randomly selected representatives, chosen in a similar way to jurors, could improve the UK's political system. He said: "The people who do make it into political office will know that they're there by chance, they're not there because they were the best or they have some kind of innate skill that someone else doesn't have and I would hope that that would certainly change the decorum of politics and certainly the kinds of behaviours that you're likely to see."

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