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Hello, you're listening to the Time to Red Box Politics podcast for the very last time this week

from Patrick McGuire. Matt Chewley is back on Monday, but we have a cracking show for my send-off

in the meantime. We're going to be talking political diaries for our big thing today,

but in the meantime, it's time for our columnist panel. No James for side today, so it's

Melanie Reed and Matthew Syed. The columnist on time's radio. Yes, it's a Friday, so we've got

Melanie Reed, Mollie Mellie. Mollie Patrick. Love you to talk to you, how are you?

I'm very well, thank you. Yeah, yeah. Good. Not too chilly up there.

A little bit, but bragging rights quite high at the moment.

You're used to it. You're made a stirner stuff than those down south. No James for side,

so it's Matthew Syed instead. Mollie Matthew.

Matthew's a very good morning. How are you, Patrick? Melanie, great to connect. I'm just

conscious of fact. We write for the same newspaper. I don't think we've ever met

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