Hello and welcome to a very special end of year downstream where I am delighted to be joined by my colleagues, my comrades, my bad influences, Michael Walker and Aaron Vastani. How are you both doing? Very well, mate.

Very well. Just finished the Navarra Live, so I'm hoping I can keep myself together.

Have another Pro Plus. It's too late for a pro. I'm going, I had two before we went live.

Okay, all right, all right. That is real Pro Plus. It's not a, you know, media euphemism for anything. Before we get started, the first thing that I want to say is that we are currently running

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continue working around the clock to bring you the news and analysis that you just won't get

anywhere else. So for today's end of year roundup, a lot has happened.

We have had some seismic elections, both here and in the United States. You've had huge

shifts in geopolitics. You've had massive cultural trends. There's no way, even if I wanted to,

and I kept you locked in here all night, that we could get through it all.

So instead, what I've tried to do is pull together some questions, which I think bring together a lot of the big themes from this year.

So hopefully we'll cover most of the important stuff, if not all of it.

And this also gives you both the freedom to

bring in whatever you like in terms of what you think the most significant events were of

2024. So my first question, and maybe I'll throw to you first, Aaron, because I know that

you've been looking at some polling. How stable is this Labour government?

So, of course, they swept in on the back of a landslide,

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