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Chris Mason.

Hello.

Put it to you.

You have not denied to a newspaper

ambitions to be on strictly convincing.

Oh dear, pesky reporters.

Well, I mean, what you say is accurate at them.

But yeah, so I did an interview

with the London Evening Standard about

doing any questions I'm ready for

and then about election cast and Brexit cast.

Anyway, I was asked about, you know,

what ambitions have you got?

And you immediately think when you're talking to a reporter,

there's a little tape record on the desk.

You don't want to sound like a complete agent,

start reading off all these things you might want to do.

So I was very vague and talked about just wanting to just make sure

I'd blasted on any questions for slightly more than six months.

But I think you must have mentioned strictly in the question.

No use, it says, so assuming any questions is just the start,

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