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Hi, I'm Anouche. I'm Alfa. And I'm Stephen.

And on today's New Statement Podcast, we react dominant coming,

giving evidence to the Health and Science Select Committees, and you ask us

our civil servants represented properly in journalism.

So we're recording as Dominic Cummings continues to give evidence to the Health and Science Select Committees.

So we're going to chime in now with our immediate reactions to what he said so far

and hopefully pick up some of the themes in a more in-depth way in future podcasts.

You too, Alva and Stephen, you've had your eyes glued to your screens because you can't sit in select committees yet.

What struck you so far about how it's going and what he said, Stephen, do you want to go first?

Yeah, so very good questions from you kind of expect good questions from the select committee chairs.

But also, you know, from Dean Russell, the new MP for Watford on the same theme.

Then the really interesting thing is basically people go like, okay, look, you've talked a lot about what went wrong.

What institutional changes do you think could be made than would prevent this happening?

And in all of them, he kind of flannel a bit and then go, did I mention the Boris Johnson is a bit rubbish,

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