Hello, I'm Matt Ford and I'm Alice Levine and we're the presenters of British scandal.

People do strange things, don't they, Alice?

I don't like the tone of your voice, what do you mean?

On our didn't mean you, I'm at the entire British public who in 2022

followed a live stream of a lettuce with a wig on.

Entirely normal behaviour.

There's more normal than what was going on inside Downing Street.

For this series on British scandal we're taking you inside number 10,

covering the shocking and very short premiership of Liz Truss.

Listen to British scandal wherever you get your podcasts.

Cream some butter and sugar,

mix with flour and milk, add yeast and salt,

let the mixture rise and then stir in some raisins,

spices and a healthy glug of brandy.

Pour the batter into loaf tins, pop them in the oven and then an hour or so later

you'll have yourself a heart-fed election cake.

The recipe dates back to pre-revolutionary New England

when the sweet treat was handed out to voters as a reward for carrying out their civic duty.

In that era election days were celebrated as holidays,

with booze flowing freely and enough election cake to feed a small army.

It was a more tasty precursor to the I voted stickers

handed out at polling stations these days,

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