This is Hugo Rifkin, here to unpack the politics of the day and the stuff that's even more important than politics too.

And joining me, as ever, are two of the finest minds from The Times and the Sunday Times.

And today they are Michael Binion. Hello, Michael.

Hello, Hugo.

Thanks for being here. And Manveen Rana, who has not, who's not today provided me with cake. Hello, Manvine.

I'm so sorry. What a terrible start of the year. I'll make up for it next week.

You're down the line. I can't see you. If I hear you eating cake, there's going to be trouble, Manvine.

No, none here, sadly. But all will be rectified next week, I promise. Well, happy New Year's you both. I'm still saying it.

Do you want to put in a request and I'll bake to order?

No, no, no, no.

I like to be surprised.

You know, I mean, funnily enough, the ones that you bring in that you say aren't good are always my favourites.

Maybe I quite like a soggy bottom.

Who knows?

I'll see what I can do. Let's crack on with things far less cheery than cake.

Let's talk about the big story of the week, the story of the grooming gangs, which has returned yet again.

In many of the papers today, the definition of Islamophobia adopted by the Labour Party since 2018 put grooming gangs in inverted commas and suggested that using that term in relation

to Muslims was racist. The wording is part of a report by an all-party parliamentary group, an

APPG of MPs co-chaired by Wes Streeting, who is of course now the health secretary. And it includes a

warning that Asian grooming gangs, that's their words, were a modern iteration of, again, their words, age the Health Secretary. And it includes a warning that Asian grooming gangs,

that's their words, were a modern iteration of, again, their words, age-old stereotypes and

tropes about Islam. Well, David Lammy, the Foreign Secretary, was asked about this on Times Radio this

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