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Hello and welcome to full disclosure, a podcast project conceived as a way of letting me spend a little bit more time than is normally available with interesting people, although the last few have been somewhat restricted by the parameters of lockdown. And today is no different. Rosanna Alinkana,

politician who hasn't actually been in the House of Commons for very long but who has

certainly made an impression joins me. Let's begin with the today Rosanna if we may.

How are you coping with the lockdown and how have you negotiated the return into

the curious state of the commons at the moment.

Oh, well, thanks for having me, first of all.

Very excited to be with you having this discussion with a bit more time than we normally have.

Yeah, I'm doing really well today, actually.

I've decided that over this lockdown period, I need to start exercising a little bit more to keep my head straight. So I've done a bit of that. I've tried a bit of homeschooling that pretty much went as well as it does every day, which is not very well at all. And in amongst all of that, I've been trying to fit in a million Zoom calls and negotiate the perils of just general life.

I'm in very good spirits and yet it's been a funny one going back into Parliament at

this time because one minute we're able to do a virtual parliament.

Next minute Boris Johnson decides that he needs some cheerleaders behind him, particularly

at PMQ so he changes the rules again.

And then we all have to queue for like two kilometres around the block to vote.

So it's interesting times.

Interesting times.

We're going to begin at the beginning, if we may, because you've come to prominence rather

quickly since you inherited Sadiq Khan.

Well, he didn't inherit it.

You had to win it in a by-election, of course. I thought my socks off for that, me.

I know you did, with a 14,307 majority, he says, not having Wikipedia open in front of him

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