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So Victoria, you're slumming it from the Ukraine Cast Studio down to the newscast studio.

I'm not slumming it. I'm privileged to be alongside you Adam.

Correct answer. So today we had Keir Starmer unveiling the five missions that would kind of guide

a future Labour government. This is on top of Rishi Sunak's five pledges which he did last month.

So I was wondering if maybe newscasters could suggest five missions slash pledges for this very

podcast. Yes, they I'm sure that will be a great idea. Can I suggest a ball rolling? Yeah, yeah,

I've got a couple. More of you on TikTok? I knew you were going to come up with a TikTok

pledge. Just queen of tics up. Yeah. And let's chitchat about your mustache.

Quite just to be clear, quite often it's the guests bringing it up with a mustache. Let me

show Barnie. The first thing he said was about the mustache. It wasn't like, oh, stick to the

Northern Ireland protocol UK government. It was like, mustache. So I can free speech.

Okay, far enough. I was going to say I've already achieved one of my pledges which was to reduce my

screen time by by an hour a day, which is which is pretty good. And then you're like, well,

hang on is that is that a realistic? Is that an honest pledge? Some of you've already done.

Yes. No, you've already done it. You've you've you've you've you've you've you've

actually soon asked pledges about having inflation and the will be either budget watch dogs say

it'll be more than halved anyway. So that's kind of what they do. These guys. Right. Okay. But in

terms of newscast, you reducing your time on social media is not a newscasty pledge slash.

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