I'm Ed Vasey and we're going to be unpacking the politics of the day, from where

Kirstearner's fate is sealed to the king being heckled because of his brother to where the stand-up

comedy should be prescribed on the NHS.

Joining me today is Alice Demby, the opinion and features editor for City AM. Welcome to the show. Hello, thank you for having me. And we have a surprise guest. It's Daisy McCandrew. She's a TV presenter. She's a royal commentator. She's covered politics for many years and she's with us today in the studio. Welcome to

the show, Daisy. Thank you very much. I feel like I should be jumping out of a box. I'm such a surprise. You should. There should be sort of ticker tape falling through the roof of the studio. Alice, what have you done with Michael Binion? Did you push him under a bus? Yeah. I wanted to have two women in the studio, I thought it would be a treat for you. Absolutely. Well, it's pertinent as well

because obviously we're going to be discussing I wanted to have two women in the studio. I thought it would be a treat for you.

Absolutely.

Well, it's pertinent as well because obviously we're going to be discussing Peter Mandersel.

Peter Mandelson, I'll get that right.

Where else to start?

A huge political story of the week.

Kier Starrma in a battle for his political survival as an increasing number of MPs and beers, either call for him

to change course or even to go. The police are going to interview Peter Mandelson over the alleged

misconduct in public office. Starma is having to disclose all his communications with him,

so there is more than enough potential for more fallout from all of this in the coming days, weeks and months.

Now, Alice, I have always assumed that Kirstarmer would somehow hold on, but even I have come to

the conclusion, it's a question of when, not if.

Yeah, I think he's done.

I mean, I don't think this is a question of what he knew when.

I think it's a paedophile scandal. Nobody survives that. It's too disgusting. It's too big. It's too shaming. And it comes on top of many other failures, frankly. He's not popular within his own party. And now he's tainted every single one of his backbenchers who stood and fought an election, promising change, stability, wanting to do things

to the country. They're now all tainted by the world's most notorious and sordid child sex

trafficker. I don't think anybody could survive this. You say it's a paedophile scan. It obviously is,

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