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Hi, I'm Anouche. I'm Alfa. And I'm Stephen.

And on today's podcast, we discuss Dominic Cummings vs. Boris Johnson and you ask us,

why were the protests against the super league not policed in the same way as the Sarah Everard

religion? So we're kicking off with a particularly difficult week for Downing Street

with the row between the Prime Minister's former top aid Dominic Cummings rumbling on.

There's an explosive story in the mail which suggests from a source that Boris Johnson said

he would rather, quote, let the bodies pile high in their thousands than have to order a third lockdown.

That's something that he's reported to have said in October.

And obviously this is ramped up the tensions about who's leaking what from from within Downing Street at that time.

And the expectation is that we're going to hear more from Dominic Cummings and more about the story

about how Downing Street's refurbishment was paid for with Labour calling for transparency on the subject.

So I've noticed that a lot of senior Tories who are asked about this on the radio, etc,

are trying to dismiss it as Westminster Tittle Tattle that the general public aren't interested in.

How fair is that and how much of this is, you know, truly important stuff that gives us an insight into

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