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Welcome to the Restis Politics. Welcome to the Restis Politics with me, Alisto Campbell.

And with me Rory Stewart.

Now this is our first main episode since the by-elections.

We should talk about that.

Obviously the world media and political debate is still dominated by the Middle East so lots on that and we both want to talk about China.

You've been going on for some time about the Chinese economy and I do think one of the most interesting

barely noticed things last week was the 10th anniversary of the

belt and road initiative where she Jing ping and Vladimir Putin had yet another

major love in so we're talk about that as well

very good should we kick off with the by-elections?

Yeah, start with the by-elections.

So just to remind people, these were two by-elections,

one of them caused by a very controversial thing, Chris Pincher, who'd been the MP for Tamworth,

was essentially the figure who was the final straw that broke the camel's back of

Boris Johnson's government. He was a man who had been accused, it seems, quite clearly, and Boris Johnson was aware of it, of some form of sexily and propriety or assault, and Boris Johnson made a joke about it, continued leaving him in government and then there was a second episode,

which led to him being suspended from the Conservative Party and was the thing that triggered the final rebellion against Boris Johnson.

So, it's the by-election in his seat.

And the other by-election is the by-election to replace Nadeen-Daurus.

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