Hello and welcome to The Rundown, a new podcast from Politics Home.

Hello and welcome to a special edition of The Rundown, a weekly podcast from Politics Home.

I'm your host Alan Tolhurst, and join me this week as our political editor Adam Payne and

political reporter Eleanor Langford, as we discussed the dramatic resignation of Prime Minister Boris Johnson and ask what comes next. Can the

government function in this interim period without ministers still in place? How long will

Johnson be allowed to remain as caretaker Prime Minister? And who are the run and riders

to replace him? So we're recording this at 3pm on Thursday after, I think we banned a couple

weeks ago saying that it's been a wild week in Westminster, but I mean, it really has this week.

I think this is the final, I promise that I'll never use that phrase ever again, because I think

that's, this is kind of, this is the bar, I think. Yeah, this is wild. This is like, I think

the last time was probably the week in 2016 after David Cameron resigned

and Boris Johnson was running for Lido and Michael Gove.

That was kind of the bar until this week.

I was going to say, I think a useful barometer of wildness is sort of how far we as individuals have deteriorated.

I'm not ashamed to admit to you and the readers that I had a Lucasair at 7 a.m.

Right, right.

And I'm probably on having another one.

I've lost track of the sort of dubious energy drinks that I've consumed.

But it's been an absolutely extraordinary week.

Yeah. I mean, so we're probably a bit of a shambles. But as we as we speak, it's three o'clock,

which means that right now, Boris Johnson's cabinet, what exactly the makeup of that cabinet looks

like. It's still really to be to be honest. So we had numerous members of his top team

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