I'm Ed Vazian. We're going to be unpacking the politics of the day from Donald Trump's

negotiating tactics to Labour's leadership hopefuls and why more young MPs in the House of Commons

might actually not be such a bad thing. With me today, of course, in touch with young public opinion is the diplomatic

editor of the Times. Michael Binion, how are you, Michael? I'm well and very young. Fantastic. And

the definitely young opinion and features editor at City AM Alice Denby. Welcome to the show,

Alice. Hello, feeling vigorous as ever. Brilliant, yes. Good. We're being filmed. I'm wearing makeup. Are you? Wonderful, yes. We all have to wear makeup now to present. Why you're so radiant. The radio show. So there you go. Let's begin by discussing the prospects for peace in the Middle East. Donald Trump has said he's

going to pause airstrikes on Iran's energy infrastructure for 10 days because of how well

peace talks are going. Here he was explaining that decision when he rang up Fox News. So I gave them

a 10-day period. They asked for seven. You're going to say, oh, Trump's a terrible

negotiator. They asked for seven, and I said, I'm going to give you 10 because they gave me ships.

We talked about the eight ships, you know, the president that I talked about the other day.

But they asked for seven, and I gave them 10. You got 10 days and they were very thankful about that.

So that clip sums up everything about Trump in my humble opinion.

He's obviously an idiot, but at the same time, he's compelling

because he's treating an incredibly serious situation like a game show, Alice.

I think that this whole situation, we shouldn't be treating it like a war or like a political dilemma

or something that can be subject to reason. To me, I think it's more like a natural disaster, right?

I think it's something you just can't reason with and you just have to adapt and cope with it however you can.

And I think it's also like a natural disaster in this sense in that this is damaged being done to the physical infrastructure that underpins global markets.

So it's not just like a war and it can end, you know, and we'll all be fine.

Ships are in the wrong place. There's nothing you can do about it.

Like the damage is done. So I don't really know where that gets us. But I suppose that's how I come to think of it rather than trying to reason with it or trying to figure out if Trump's playing

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