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Hello and welcome to a special edition of the For the Many podcast.

It's only special really because it's only going to be about half an hour long but there we go.

It is a momentous day. We're about to get our fifth Prime Minister in six years.

Oh, you're making an assumption there, Ian.

Well, I am making an assumption because I think it's pretty obvious what's going to happen this afternoon, isn't it?

Well, that's a bit boring then.

You don't think that Penny will suddenly have jumped from 30 to over 100 in the last half an hour.

Well, it is possible.

I mean, they've been saying that they've got 90, but it's a bit like Boris saying he had 100 when nobody really believed it.

I mean, look, I would love her to have well over 100, but I don't think it's going to happen.

And if it does go over 100, then I think there needs to be the indicative vote.

But I'm afraid Rishi Sunat will storm that,

but it will demonstrate that he has a mandate. And I can't imagine why then Penny would take

it to the members. And I think she might win her in the members. But if you are two-thirds, one-third, and you haven't got the confidence of the

parliamentary party, then I really think that would not be a good thing to do. Yeah, but why is she,

in that case, why is she still in it? Why hasn't she already done a deal? I mean, she's

taking it to the wire, isn't she? Well, I think it's

understandable that she wants to sort of show that she has got a level of support, and if she can

get over 100. I mean, that is about 30% of the parliamentary party and puts her in quite a powerful

position to negotiate what kind of, I don't know what kind of job

she would want I think she ought to be foreign secretary and deputy prime minister but um

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