Page 94, the Private Eye podcast.

Hello and welcome to another episode of Page 94.

My name's Andrew Hunter-Murray, and this is a very exciting, rather special episode of page 94 for us, because for the first time in the many years that this podcast's been in production, we have gone live, we've gone electric, we've gone to the Cambridge Literary Festival. This is a recording of a show

that we put on at the Cambridge Literary Festival about a week ago, and it's a format that we call

many questions, which is definitely legally safe and won't provoke any copyright claims against us.

So these are questions that the audience sent in. These are questions

that came in in the room on the night. These are questions that, Frankie, we've always wanted to be

asked and we were disappointed nobody else had. So it's me, it's Adam McQueen, it's Helen Lewis,

it's Ian Hizlop. We started off by asking Ian, the editor, how he thinks the first year of the

Labour government is going. Take it away, Ian.

There was a very brief honeymoon period, and we thought to start with, because the comic device for the late Tory governments was the WhatsApp group in which they were incredibly rude about

each other, and we thought this was a brilliant bit of fiction, and then the COVID inquiry

revealed that this was just documented.

And this is how government's now done. So we thought, we'll keep the same device and see if it works.

And then immediately you find out that this Labour Cabinet works by WhatsApp group and the actual meetings are equally, equally toxic.

Everybody's on what? So Robert Jenrick added everyone in his entire phone book, basically,

to a WhatsApp group this week. Did you read the story? Why was this? Pure supposition,

because he wanted to do some leadership plotting and hit the wrong button, I presume. Right.

And it was like, delete, delete, delete. But then Sarah Vine, equally,

on Sunday columnist, male columnist, started a huge WhatsApp group with all of her media chums for

her book launch. And then about five of them have already got columns out of it. If you see this,

it's extraordinary. It's like, what would happen if you added everybody who has a newspaper column

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