Welcome to the Restless Politics with me, Alistair Campbell, and with me, Rory Stewart.

And we'll be talking about the new First Minister of Scotland. We'll also be talking about

Tory MPs getting caught up in rather silly stings and we'll be talking about France and

the continuing protests over rather modest reform that Emmanuel Macron is trying to bring

forward. And we're also going to be talking about what Rory assesses as the appeal of

authoritarianism in the Middle East, although at the moment Mr Netanyahu is looking less

and less appealing all the time. But Rory, I think we've got to start with something that

didn't cross my mind when I was filming you dancing at the pladeum. But that is the many, many

people who've suggested that this was your first step towards trying to get an audition

for Strictly Come Dancing. Is that right or wrong? Well, it's of course completely wrong

because I've been very, very heavily trained by my co-podcast presenter, Alistair Campbell,

that you and I should never be going on celebrity jungle or Strictly Come Dancing.

I don't know how rude we were about Matt Hancock. I think that would be a very bad thing.

So what was it that made you want to dance on the stage? I think I felt very similar thing to

what drew you to want to play the bagpipes to the tuna match of the day. But I've been playing

the bagpipes all my life. Have you been dancing to Max Miller or your life? I've been dancing

Max Miller. No, but I dance. I do a lot of Scottish dancing. Yeah, that came through. But if you

played a real, I could we could do it. We could do an eightsome on the on the stage. Okay,

well, you can't do an eightsome on your own. You don't have to get seven other people up there.

A hurricane could be our opportunity. This could be the big, big moment for us. Anyway,

at the moment, yeah, I'm very keen for people who want to see my ridiculous dancing to see it free

rather than being paid Alah Hancock to go on Strictly or even to dance for a Korean consulting company.

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