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We're indebted to Jim Picard of the FT for telling us the story so far. Here goes.

Pinscher. Tractorgate. Owen Patterson. Green Sill Capital. Party gate. Mustique.

The £800,000 loan. Woolpaper gate. Lebedev Peeridge, Warburton, Rab bullying. Patel bullying. Illegal prerogation.

We could go on, but at some point we have to give you the rest of the podcast.

Welcome to the newsagents.

The newsagents.

The list we did is, I want to say, a few selected highlights of the political turmoil, chaos and arguably

corruption of the last few years. But it gives you a sense, perhaps, at how we've arrived

where we are. In the words of, I think it was Steveine, Conservative MP, Long Boris, this tailwind of a former, former Prime Minister who seemed to have left a lot of grubbiness round the bath.

I would say stink bomb, but I went to a boys' school, where it just feels like Boris has dropped

this stink bomb in the room and the smell just won't go away. And so even though we're now two

prime ministers on from Boris Johnson, the after odour, the whiff, is still there. And Nadim Zahawi

just feels like a throwback. When you read

that report from Rishi Sunak's ethics advisor, you know, where on seven different counts, it

looks like Nadim Zahawi is guilty and there are no mitigating factors. It really left Rishi Sunak no choice, and I don't think he

wanted to have a choice, frankly. It was straightforward. You've got to go. It's a really

interesting thing in terms of timing, because we spent the whole of last week saying, why hasn't

this thing that looks really obvious happened yet? Why hasn't Zahui resigned or why

hasn't he been fired? Why has it gone on so long? And the argument against that, obviously,

is due process. And actually, you have to be a believer in due process and say, let's get all the

facts. Let's get all the stuff written down. Let's bring it all into the light first. But what I think

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