Hello, before we begin this week's podcast, I have an outside interest to declare.

Behind the scenes of Calling Peston, I've been using my considerable influence as a much respected

and much love podcast presenter to lobby the ITV bosses to have the name of this podcast changed

to Calling Hewitt. I understand now that why I may not have broken any formal

rules in such lobbying, I did send text messages to senior members of the newsroom and buy them

several Greg sausage rolls, which I now see were a mistake. I should have gone through the formal

channels, and in any inquiry that follows, I shall be fully transparent. I just wanted to get that

off my chest, Cheab, before we start.

Thank you. Thank you, thank you for doing that.

Welcome back. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. That was very good.

Thank you very much. That was very good. Welcome back to calling Peston. We've had a short break over Easter and we've returned with shorter haircuts, thanks to

the unlocking.

But it's lobbying we'll be talking about today on the podcast, not my fictitious attempts to get

the podcast changed, though one listener, my dad would be delighted.

But at the lobbying of former Prime Minister David Cameron on behalf of Lex Greensill,

not one but two

inquiries, perhaps even three now, will be looking into what happened and whether the rules

themselves are broken, even if Cameron didn't break any himself. Our special guest also this

week is an absolute cracker. Journalist and author Natalie Morris is here to talk about her new book

Mixed Other in which she explores the experiences of living in Britain today. As a mixed race person, here's a little teaser for you.

I bring together a broad picture of the nuances, the complexities, the joys and the kind of

unique stories that come with being mixed, essentially.

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