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I'm Sebastian Payne.

After one of the most turbulent political years in living memory,

Westminster has thankfully taken a break over Christmas and so are we. Brexit is shuffling

towards completion but with not much else on the agenda right now it seems an

opportune to look back with a bit of perspective and to do just that I'm joined by a very special

guest this week. Lionel Barber who I'm sure listeners know is editor of the

F.T. He joined the paper in 1985 and have served variously as our Washington correspondent Brussels Bureau Chief News Editor

and for the last 14 years editor.

He's overseen the FT's transformation from a print product to primarily a digital organ

and he is stepping down at the

beginning of January so I thought would be good to sit down with Lionel and look back

over British politics from his time at the FT. Lionel thank you very much for

joining. Thank you for the invitation, Seb.

So we're sitting here a week after Boris Johnson's election victory, which was quite a surprise

for everyone, the sheer scale of that majority.

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