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Well, it's the first emergency pod since lockdown, and the reason is obvious because the Prime Minister has this morning announced his resignation.

And I imagine Jackie Smith, that brought some cheer to your sick bed.

Well, that's a good start, isn't it?

My bed is very sick i am i'm not blaming you but i am actually in the middle of my second bout of covid unbelievably only four months after the first one the only

upside is that i tested positive yesterday morning when I was about to start doing a board meeting,

which meant I had to leave and come home. So I've basically been sat on the sofa in

Catford, suffering and watching all the shenanigans unwinding over the last 24 hours. So if you're going to be sick for a couple of days, this is certainly the time to do it if you are a political geek like we are.

And if you are desperate to see the back of our lying dreadful Prime Minister like I was.

Well, yesterday was my first day back at work in three weeks. our lying dreadful Prime Minister like I was.

Well, yesterday was my first day back at work in three weeks.

So I wasn't sure how it would go.

I mean, what a day to come back in many ways.

I thought about coming back the previous day and then wish I'd had afterwards, given all the things that were going on.

When did you appear with, I listened to you

when you were on with Andrew Marr? Yeah, I did some, a couple of Zoom things on Tuesday evening when

every, I can't even remember what was going on there. Lots of, well, that was after, it was Christopher

Pinch, wasn't it?

Well, no, that was on Tuesday, wasn't it, Rishi and Sajid resigning?

That was the spark for that, I think.

So I went on with Andrew Marr a bit then, and then did a bit into Ben Kentish's show when he was effectively presenting my show.

So all that was a bit, a bit weird.

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