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Hello and is down to the six who are going ahead as of this Monday but there's been a lot of

jiggery pokary going on this week let's put it that way and Katie in particular

Kimmy Bayhoc has been the candidate quite a lot in the news for various things people are

coming out and saying about her. So tell us about that. Yeah, well I think as we said

many times, Cammy Baye-Nec is the parent front runner, do you want to be the front runner tends to

mean you have a target on your back, but also more generally that you just get more attention

and more scrutiny. So it doesn't necessarily mean that every single story you see has been planted by a rival campaign,

but obviously there's always been more interest in the person who looks so they might be the leader of the opposition

than the person who looks as though they don't have much

chance and that means that Kamehaydenock who I think is a dynamic politician who divides

opinion is having probably the most scrutiny of all the candidates

so far and of course it's early days and much of that is in the guardian at the moment

so there's been a series of stories it began with with, I think, a story they've been working on for some time, which was allegations of intimidating or bullying behavior by civil servants.

These are, you know, some civil servants who worked in the departments.

We actually already knew about that story because Kimmy Baye would not take into social media,

as she sometimes does on journalism, before it was even published to say, you know,

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