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See you there. Hello and welcome to the Spike Podcast.

I'm Fraser Myers and back with me we have Spikes editor Tom Slater.

Hello.

And no Ella will in this week and not for a while in fact as she's on maternity leave but in her

place we're delighted to welcome friend of the show and spiked columnist Anaya

falarin imman. Hi. Coming up on today's show the implosion of the Tories the protests in Iran and

Elon Musk's deal to buy Twitter is back on.

So the Conservative Party has had its conference this week.

Obviously there's been a lot more attention paid to what's going outside the conference room,

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