The The Oh, Welcome to another sparkling edition of The Thought Police. It's the Thought Provoking podcast that people like to listen to because it's

politics but slightly differently done with Matt Kelly from the New European and me Mike Graham

very good afternoon to you.

Hello mate how are you?

I'm all right, I'm all right.

I've been, I suppose what we can say at the beginning of the week is Boris Johnson's back at work,

which is probably a good thing, as far as I'm concerned you might not think so and also

I mean I think the world is breathing a massive sigh relief now that Dominic Rhab has been

relieved of his grasp of the nuclear button.

Do you not think he was kind of getting into it though a bit more?

He looked a bit more authoritative as the time went on.

Yeah, I mean I guess so.

You relax into it, but he's very robotic and and small as well. I haven't quite appreciated just how small he is.

Not that I've got... Is he not? I don't think I've ever actually seen him. he is he small he's quite I'd say probably about

five nine something like that right oh god I don't look like a massive big man to me yeah

you see the podium sort of half covered him. Oh okay I never really

thought about that. You see it's funny I think there are things that you would notice because you're like me a

trained journalist and things that I don't notice I've got this terrible habit right of and I don't

whether it's something that happens with age but I'll look around and I'll go I've never seen that before you know like something in the

building and it will go and

whoever I'm standing with is it that's been there ever since we've worked here

and I'm like really I've never noticed it you know and I there are things

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