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Welcome to the rest of politics with me, Alastair Campbell.

And with me, Rory Stewart.

And Rory, we're going to focus a bit more on Britain in the first half,

and in particular talk about the politics of immigration and some of the other things that have been going on in the UK. After the break, talk about

United States and what's going on there in a country where you'd think Donald Trump was already

president, not that he had a few weeks left ago. And then also about France and Germany, because

we've now got the two major powers of the European Union, both essentially without a government that can get a budget through in the German case with now an election coming up in February.

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