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Hello, I'm Hugo Rifkin and now we're going to be unpacking the politics of the day,

including the big UK-EU reset, and joining me at my summit table, well, theoretically, two journalists have only agreed to appear together of the months of painstaking high-stakes diplomacy,

and they ought to be Patrick McGuire and Jamel Kerrins but they're in fact Jamel Carrins and an empty chair.

Does that mean I win?

You win.

Well done.

Go home.

Thank you.

I will.

You have one big brother.

You may now leave the house.

My favourite competitions are the ones I win just by turning up or writing my name.

Patrick is going to be joining us in a moment. And so as to avoid the obvious and ever-present risk of you both saying exactly the same things about deep-level political negotiations, which is always a risk with Jane and Patrick.

Let's start, Jane.

I obviously know in much greater detail.

Well, exactly.

I just don't want to embarrass him by having him deliver all this sort of insider analysis

and you've just you've just gone and done it like immediately before and oh there he is walking

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