Hello and welcome to Not Another One.

I'm Miranda Green and I'm joined this week by my colleague Steve Richards and Tim Montgomery.

We're all down the line, but minus Ian.

O'Mont, Ian, who is at Paris today, having been called in to save, as far as we understand it,

the Franco-British relationship at a summit.

So we're all sort of, I think we should bask in the reflected glory a bit slightly, don't you chaps, of being being called upon to do this.

Clearly, very important relationship. Should we worry more about the Anglo-French relationship?

No, I don't think we shouldn't.

I think that's most disloyalty.

Please take a demerit point for that remark.

I think it's safe in Ian's hands,

but I am interested to hear what he comes back with

because clearly, you know, Macron's role in the Ukraine crisis and then, you know, trying to deal with

the Orban crisis in the EU and all the rest of it. It's very interesting. So I wonder what

he'll come back with. In the meantime, dear listeners, what we've decided to do is because

the international situation is so fluid, we're actually recording this on Tuesday

and Donald Trump's moving deadline to Iran means that we don't really, you know, know what will happen by the time you hear this.

So we are more than aware, again, of the international backdrop to our conversation, but we don't want to be,

you know, a hostage to fortune in podcast form. So we will park that for now, maybe come back to it in

our next episode, because there's so much going on domestically as well. We thought we talked about

domestic politics, and specifically, because we're into the local

election campaign, Scottish election campaign, wealth election, Welsh election campaign, pretty much

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