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Welcome to another episode of the RESTYS Polyties Leading with me, Alistair Campbell.

And with me, Rory Stewart. And Rory tell us where you are and who you're with and that way,

well people know who our guest is because it's advertised where they click on but what do you

just tell us where you are? Yeah, this is something it's taken us a long time to realize.

We've been doing this mystery trail where we'd be like I'm sitting in Manhattan with a good-looking

chap and a blue shirt and then about 15 minutes later we tell them what they can already read on

the description of the podcast. Yeah, yeah. Which is that I'm sitting with your friend David

Meliband who did a surprise appearance turning up like some unbearded father Christmas to deliver

presents to your house. He did, so Christmas, yeah. Yeah, because David, David, I should declare an

interest. David is a very close friend. Doesn't mean I won't give him a hard time. At least until

the end of this podcast, yeah. Yeah, yeah, we could never won't fall over that. Former foreign

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