Hello and welcome to not another one, the podcast with me, Steve Richards, Ian Martin, Miranda Green and Tim Montgomery.

We started during the election, but through popular demand,

we are carrying on and on and on, to quote Margaret Thatcher. So we're going to be in for years.

And thank you very much for tuning in again. Thanks to our brilliant sponsors, Get Living,

which has made all of this possible. And this is what we're going to do in

our time together today, as we reflect on this first four week of a Labour government, first four

week of a Tory party in opposition, etc. Our quick takes of the week, then we're going to look to

the United States, as we'll do regularly on this podcast, and reflect on the extraordinary drama around Joe Biden.

And after that, two of us at least are going to raise big challenges, potential dangers for this new government.

And the other two will do it on another week.

So that's kind of roughly where we're going to be. So let's go with our takes of the week.

Miranda, the first four week of this government, what has kind of really stood out for you?

Well, do you remember when Liz Truss took over, she infamously tweeted that she was,

her government was going to hit the ground and then she missed off the word running.

I forgot that. I don't remember that. Proved to be important of what was to come. But, you know,

I think it's fair to say that the Starma government really has hit the ground running. And of course,

the fact that there's a NATO summit immediately, you know, helps the optics, as they say, in political comms, because there he is with other world leaders almost immediately. And I think a lot of the government appointments have been really interesting to manage to appoint people who have expertise in their area seems refreshing. Let me just

put it politely like that after so many years of a party in power that was really scraping the

barrel towards the end. I'd flag up one, for example, Sarah Sackman, the newly elected MP for Finchly.

She is Solicitor General, a big job, and she actually

has expertise in planning law. So if one of the main things they're going to do, for example,

is look at the planning system, fend off protests to development, all the rest of it,

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