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I'm Anouche. I'm Alfa. And Armando Unucci joins us for his best

impression of Steven Bush on this episode of The New Statement Podcast when we discuss whether

the role of Prime Minister needs to be rethought and you ask us what would you put in its place?

We're delighted to be joined by Armando Unucci, the writer and satirist behind the thick of it,

Veep, the death of Stalin and most recently the personal history of David Copperfield,

and of course the co-creator of Alan Partridge whose broadcast skills we are

severely lacking on this podcast. Thank you so much for joining us, Armando.

And the reason that you're with us here today is because you've written a great piece

in our special spring issue about why it's time for us to rethink the entire role of the Prime

Minister because it's the 300th anniversary of the creation of the office, isn't it? So it is.

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