Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the podcast with me, Steve Richards.

Thank you for tuning in.

And here is another chance for us in the Rock and Roll Politics Cooperative, Steve Richards. Thank you for tuning in, and here is another chance for us in the

Rock and Roll Politics Cooperative to delve deep. And we have got a lot of delving to do in our time

together. The departure of Morgan McSweeney is obviously going to be the theme of our time together,

a moment of considerable significance.

Just before that, a reminder, rock and roll politics is live this coming Wednesday.

And some of you will be listening to the podcast then, but I'm recording it, obviously,

before Wednesday, because some of you will be getting it on the day of

recording and others the next morning at dawn, but I'll say it, who knows where we will be by

Wednesday evening. So do come along if you can. You can also get tickets to watch it streamed

live and take part. There are still options for questions on the stream

and all of that. And if you subscribe to Patreon, a bonus podcast will be arriving later in the

week on this theme of when prime ministers fall. Not those who are defeated by an election or ill health or whatever,

but when there is a move to remove a prime minister within office. That's not a prediction about

what will happen now, but it is interesting when it happens. And indeed, up until recently, how rarely it happened.

But anyway, do please subscribe because that keeps this show on the road.

With the McSweeney departure, there are sort of two routes to take.

One is to speculate about whether Stama survives, who might take over,

and so on. And in a way, that is exciting and fun, but utterly fruitless, because we don't

quite know the answer. As ever in politics, what we do know is far more interesting than what we don't.

And I think what we are going through this week is an inevitable, genuine reset of this government.

...