Welcome to the second episode of the rest of this politics question time with me, Rory Stewart.

And me, Astakambo.

After the drama of this political week, today's episode is going to be mostly a Boris Johnson

Free Zone, led by another 500 questions from you.

So Anastam, where should we start?

Well, I want to start with a couple that are about us and this podcast, Peter Yarrow.

You say you disagree agreeably, but have you changed each other's mind on anything?

And related to that, John, Rory, would Anastam be more effective if he was less angry and more tolerant of other views?

Alistair, would Rory be more effective politician if he was less tolerant and more ruthless?

Why don't we start on that?

Would I be more effective politician if I was less tolerant and more ruthless?

I think you would, I think you're a bit soft for this game sometimes.

I think I do see the point of the way that you operate and I think I'm learning that kind of clarity.

But I do think sometimes on policy, you need to be able to have the objectivity and the critical thinking,

which is a pretentious way of saying, I think sometimes if you're in permanent campaign mode,

it's then quite difficult to flip back to sitting at your desk or sitting in the cabinet room

and really going back to first principles and working out what you really think, regardless of the politics.

Yeah, maybe, I'll tell you one thing that sprung to my mind with Peter Yarrow's question about whether you've changed my mind on anything.

I said this at the live show we did, I do find myself sometimes now where I'm about to tweet angrily

that I just sort of hold myself back and I think, oh, no, Rory says I get too angry on social media.

So I have found myself sort of pulling back, but you've yet to change my mind about any of the big policy issues.

In fact, one question I've got to throw at you, Rory, how can you sit there?

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