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Welcome to The Restless Politics with me, Rory Stewart.

And me, Alistair Campbell.

Today we're going to be discussing the Australian election results.

They're wider international impact and I'm going to try to see if there's any connection

between the teal party in Australia and what we've been trying to do with independence in London.

We're going to talk about Joe Biden's worries about island nations looking to China.

And huge thank you to everyone who sent in a question this week.

Another 600 questions on Twitter and email.

So we'll work our way through as many as those as we can in the second half.

Right then, Alistair, I don't really want to raise it, but Burnley.

No, you don't want to raise it, Rory.

And also, you so don't care and you so don't know.

And it's only a matter of pain to me.

So let's just move on and let's start where we ended last week,

which was you saying that lying has to become more central to our political debate.

And lo and behold, here we are recording this on the moment, on the morning,

when Boris Johnson pictures have emerged of him clearly having a party at an event

for which he was not fined by the Metropolitan Police.

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