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That includes me, Steve Anglesey. How you doing? What do you want for Christmas, by the way?

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After the COVID response report, Dominic Cummings has said the prime ministers

either stupid or a liar, to which I say, let's be fair to Boris Johnson and be big

enough to admit that he is both.

This week on the podcast, Brexit is beginning to collapse under the weight of its own stupidity,

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