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Hello there. Well, we are doing this all remotely on Zoom in a kind of lockdown style,

given that this is the week in which party gate my cats here. I'm at home, my cat is come to join me, hello, Kat.

We're all working in different places. It's quite fitting because obviously we got transported back to Partygate lockdowns and Boris Johnson this week. Now, I'm joined by Katie Ball's political ledditch of The Spectator and Sir Craig Oliver,

who was down in Street's Director of Communications and whom I did some business with

back in 2011 to 2016, when I was at the FD remember Craig and you were director of comms.

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