Good evening and welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast, the podcast where we cover

matters of local, national and even international political importance, but in a calm, measured

and reasonable way to get to the heart of the matter. I'm Ian Tiny Morris.

And I'm Simon Sandsbury and we had a different show planned for this Sunday, but we changed it

because there was an announcement in the, in the, in the middle of the week.

So we're absolutely delighted to be able to welcome on two guests that are impacted directly

by that and can speak to that with, um, we'll authenticity and authority.

And, and they are And they are Martin Todd.

Hello.

And Anna Collar.

Hello.

So welcome both to the show.

We're talking about devolution and about the delay that was announced on Thursday to the mayoral elections.

So before we get right into our questions,

I think probably our viewers might benefit

from a brief explainer of devolution,

what it means, what the plan is,

if anyone actually knows anymore,

and how that's meant to work.

And hopefully, when I've done that,

our guests won't tell me that actually half of that is wrong.

So devolution is the,

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