This is The Guardian.

It was Boris Johnson's last Prime Minister's questions this week,

and he went out in his usual style.

As we say goodbye to Johnsonism, whatever that was,

we've now got to focus on Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss,

the last two contenders to replace him.

And amid the frenzy over the Tory leadership,

the country is literally in flames.

The London Fire Brigade has just declared a major incident in response to a huge surge in

fires across the capital today. This is critical.

While neither candidate to be Prime Minister is really voicing any convincing climate policy,

yes, I'm John Harris and you're listening to Politics Weekly UK for The Guardian.

Because this week is really all about the Conservative Party, I'm joined by someone with a lot of

direct experience of Conservative politics and another person who reports brilliantly about

Conservative politics. Firstly, David Gaulk, the former Conservative Cabinet Minister and MP,

and then secondly, Katie Balls, the deputy political editor of the spectator and reasonably

regular Guardian columnist. Hello to you both. Hello. Hello.

Hi, right. Let's talk about, apart from the Tory leadership, there's been another sort of

key political event this week, which is the sheer heat that we all experienced on Monday and

Tuesday. I think some of us are continuing to experience images of burning houses and roadside

verges. This sense that this might be a tipping point, I wonder, I feel like this,

do you now have sympathy or more sympathy with the people who regularly crash land in the news media

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