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Morning James Price. Former government advisor. There he is. Look. You said, where are you? The Sistine Chapel. What's going on?

Almost. Hello, my friend. I'm talking to you from sunny or almost sunny Bucharest. And although it may be mean for me to demean the lovely Romanian people by making a vampire joke,

next time you see me, do check I've not got any puncture wounds in my neck and bring some garlic.

There we go. Lovely to have you on. I'd like your response very quickly to that breaking news that the UK economy grew by 0.1% between July and September.

Because I thought this government came to power talking about growth, growth, growth, growth, baby.

Yeah, well, firstly, the breaking news, I've downloaded my talk app, so don't worry, I've got that there, and I can see your face right here. But on this point, I mean, it's absolutely, I mean, why is anybody surprised? You've got a bunch of people who've never seemingly worked in any kind of private sector organisation. They don't understand how economic growth works at all. They think that all

money comes from the government belongs to the government. All power should go back to the government.

They don't understand that profit is why people often do things. The profit motive is what gets people

out of bed in the morning, for people that actually have to generate wealth to put food on their

kids' table rather than just

getting it from a government salary. So why are we surprised? They've spent the last, what,

14 months or so, making it much more difficult to do business here, making it much less hospitable

a place for wealthy people to live or even people who just have skills and want to get on to live.

And then we're surprised when the economy is absolutely in the toilet. And it's coming, as you say, just before the budget. And this is going to be the most awful budget. Probably we've ever seen, and not to sound too Donald Trumpian about this, but they've proven they can't reduce spending in any way, shape or form. They've proven, as we about to speak about, they can't even get on with each other.

And if the prospect of losing Starmor and Reeves means that we get Ed Miliband, this is only going to be the start. I'm sorry to ruin everybody's morning like this. No, that's great. Thank you. Welcome to Thursday, if you're just tuning in live from Bulgaria. Amanda, ruin your day. Let's talk. You were a former government advisor, close to Zahawi when he was in power in the cabinet. You know how this works. We are waking up to them. There's astonishing stories today. And I'm sort of at pains to not overdo this. But yesterday, even by the Labour Party's standards was astounding. Allies at the

Prime Minister started briefing to journalists, all proven, saying, you know, if there's a leadership

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