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Welcome to The Restisted Politics with me, Alistair Campbell.

And with me, Rory Stewart.

Sadly, yet again, we're going to have to talk about Swela Bravaman and National Conservatism,

and the neck migration figures coming out.

We're going to talk a little bit about Scotland, and also about something that Rory and I both picked up last week on our travels in the UK

about the way that Labour has seen at the moment, which I think is worth discussing.

And then we're going to go into the G7.

Zelensky's Master Class, but also Rory happens to be in Japan, where the G7 was hosted.

We'll talk a little bit about Japan, a little bit about G7 and G8 summits, and frankly, whether there's much point.

But Rory, let's kick off with Suerella, as I like to call her.

Yeah, well, let me start by paying tribute to the fact that your book is now the number one bestseller in the United Kingdom.

Are you completely exhausted? You've been charging up and down the country talking to every school in the country.

Now, I've enjoyed talking to the schools, actually, and I'm not really exhausted.

No, the only thing that I found utterly exhausting was I left Glasgow on Sunday at 7...

I left my hotel at 7.30 a.m., and I finally walked through the door just as the second half was starting in the four o'clock kickoff on Sky.

So that was a pretty troubled train journey home, pretty troubled train journey.

And I added to the irritation which you were presumably missing part of a football game that you wanted to see.

I wasn't that bothered about the game, to be absolutely frank, but it was just one of those journeys where everything seemed to go wrong.

And at the very same time, as people pointed on Twitter, I was on the bullet train heading between Tokyo and Nagoya.

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