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is about to turn things around and could somehow win the next election. We're asking what

it would really take for Rishi Sunak to turn around the listing Tory tanker. Does he really

have a chance of persuading us that he's fixing, broken Britain? Plus, hardline Tories have

wanted to leave the European Convention on Human Rights for years. Now they think the small

boat's crisis is the way to achieve their goal. How likely is it that they'll get their way?

And what would it mean? Human Rights Lawyer Adam Wagner helps us investigate.

And in the extra bit for Patreon backers, wages are rising at the fastest rate since records began,

but inflation means it's still a pay cut in real terms for many. What are the worst paid jobs

our panel has ever done and what did it teach them? Let's meet the panel. Marie Lacont is a

columnist and author of Escape, the book for Termnally Online Millennials, out now in paperback.

Hello Marie. Hello. There was a story in the Times notebook this weekend

claimed that all gaming taught me was how to destroy stuff. This will be news to all the people

who played truck driving simulators to wind down. I'm not one of them, but hey, you're a gamer,

though, of sorts. Does it give you an appetite for destruction? No, so I actually that really

annoyed me. I think that, and I nearly wanted to write a response piece of saying that actually

gaming has been nearly the opposite for me where it's taught me so much, even especially playing

that the recent Zelda games of, you know, patience or if you want to do something, sometimes the

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