Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics with me Steve Richards, the twice weekly

podcast. Thanks a lot for tuning in and as ever we've got a lot to reflect on in our time together. If it's okay with all of you,

I will reflect on an interesting sequence of political events that I've been monitoring

just in advance of recording the podcast. I've been looking at the COVID inquiry, which is interviewing

both David Cameron and George Osborne this week, amongst others, the Kirstamaer

press conference in Edinburgh on their so-called Green Recovery Plan. And many thoughts arise from this juxtaposition and sequencing. We've also had, of course,

the House of Commons debate on the Privileges Committee report. But I agree with Helen the baker,

who has emailed me, so-called for new listeners, because she

bakes whilst listening to the podcast.

Enough, Boris Johnson, please.

She says the only valid theme now is how he was ever allowed to get to the very top and

how do we make sure it doesn't happen again.

And I agree, those are really potent questions.

But although I got lots of emails about Johnson,

there isn't going to be much focus on it in this podcast today.

So, yeah, it kind of, I found it a very revealing and illuminating sequence. Before that,

a couple of notices and then to some of your emails. So just very briefly on the notices

front, I hope those of you who subscribe to Patreon have got the final episode of the

Troublemakers series. It was on Robin Cook. And I think as I was reflecting on Robin

Cook, I kind of thought, what an complex figure. There's a really dark series to be done on premature deaths in politics and the

consequences arising from it. They're obvious. Hugh Gatesgill, John Smith for Labor,

Ian McLeod for the Tories, who died shortly after the June 1970 election, he was

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