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over beyond. Hello and welcome to the bunker with me Steve Richards great honor to be presenting this

podcast I do my own podcast with the legendary podmasters rock and roll

politics but now the bunker and it's an even greater honor because I'm joined by the political editor of the daily telegraph, Ben Riley Smith,

who has written an update and it really is updated and it's where we're going to start to a book he wrote about

the Tory party in government. It's now called Blue Murder, the rise and fall of the Conservative government 2010 to 2024, that extraordinary 14 years brought to vivid life and guides us behind the scenes over its pages.

Ben, thanks so much for coming in.

Can we begin with the end and then go back?

Because the end still feels,

although it all now feels like ancient history, but it's very recent.

And you've got some fascinating material on one of the great mysteries of recent times,

the calling of that early election in July.

And in a way it's a reminder that Prime Ministers are human beings, aren't they?

He had tried so much Ritchie Sunak as he thought to try and narrow the poles, but things just got worse.

He feared they were going to get even worse.

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