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Hello, here's a little quiz for you.

What do Laura Kunsberg and Sean Pan have in common?

Neither of them went to the Oscars.

Both of them have been spending time with Vladimir Zelensky this week instead.

Here's another one.

What do Angela Rainer and Donald Trump have in common? This week, they have become Kirstarmer's chief

critics on either side of the Atlantic. We'll explain what's going on in this episode of Newscast.

Newscast from the BBC. Fat boy sliver me in the classroom doing our violin lessons. I was the tappletail in the class. Can I have an apology, please? I trust almost nobody. Then daddy has to sometimes do strong language. Next time in Moscow. I feel delulu with no solulu. Take me down to Downey Street. Let's go have a tour. Blimey. Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio. And it is Chris at Westminster. And we're also joined by the BBC's Chief North America correspondent, who is in North America, Gary O'Donoghue. Hi, Gary. Hi, Adam. Hello. Gary, do you mind sitting patiently for a few minutes while me and Chris do some Westminster minutiae? Although actually, you're a political correspondent for a long time, so feel free to chip into that too. I'm patience personified. Although I suppose, Gary, when we talk about Labour leadership, that's more of the TBGBs was your era, wasn't it, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Well, I was there when Major was there, actually. That was my first Prime Minister, as it were. Oh, you've done them all then. Great. We can get the long view, as Jonathan Friedland would say on Radio 4.

So, Chris, my question to you, are we now in the era where spring receptions of think tanks and campaign groups are as important as Christmas parties?

Well, I mean, if Tuesday night was anything to go by, yeah. So this was a, the basement of a

Westminster pub. It's like a Westminster twist on an open mic night, you know, singing not required.

But if you fancy doing a bit of a turn about your political ambitions and the state of the party

that you're a member of, then the floor is yours.

Effectively is how it kind of played out.

So this was a gathering of a group called the mainstream group within the Labor fold.

They're broadly, and excuse the kind of political language here, but they're broadly on

the kind of soft left of the party.

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