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Today was an opportunity for the Prime Minister to tell us everything that he knew.

And to be fact, his statement was okay as far as it went, but it was still a book, well, everyone else is to blame but me.

He was defending himself, Ian. That's what you do when you defend yourself.

But there was no acknowledgement that he should have known about this.

Who on earth thinks of the Commonwealth as an evil post-imperial construct, apart from the likes of Zara fucking Sultana or Zach fucking Polanski?

It was a huge number actually of academics and professors.

Who?

Oh yeah.

All on the hard left.

Tessa Dunlop, Ian Dale, with you for the next hour with incisive political debate.

Oh, I'm glad you've changed your tune. And the odd smidge of history too.

Earlier today, Ian said, well, obviously, I will be glued to the screens at 3.30.

We'll have to move the pod along a little bit so that we can record after.

Starma has given us his legal ease in front of the house and then been taken down by one Diane Abbott.

And then, Ian added, in a next WhatsApp.

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