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Hello, I'm Hannah Barnes and this is where I put your pressing political questions to the New Statesman's team.

Today I'm joined by our political editor Andrew Marr and senior editor George Eaton.

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Right, let's start with a question which was sent in via newstatesman.com forward slash you ask us.

This listener says, Louise Hayes exit left an available place in Cabinet.

What does Heidi Alexander's appointment tell us about who and what is important to Team Starma?

I think it shows, once again, the Keir Summer Valley's experience.

Heidi Alexander had held the role of Deputy Mayor of London for Transport under Sadiq Khan.

And this is a thread running through a lot of Stammer's appointments.

So who's the new National Security Advisor?

It's Jonathan Powell, who's Chief of Staff under Tony Blair.

He's brought back Liz Lloyd, who was also in Blair's number 10, who's the Energy Secretary. It's Ed Miliband, who held the same role in Gordon Brown's

cabinet. Heidi Alexander, politically, she's not certainly not a member of the soft left in the way

Louise Haig was, nor is she a sort of avid Blair, I think. She backed Andy Burnham, backed Owen Smith. So for

me, what I took away from that appointment was it's someone who knows the transport sector and is

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