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

Thank you very much for tuning in. And as ever, we've got a lot to cram in in our time together. First of all I want to say

thank you very much to all those who attended the show on Saturday night in Cambridge,

a part of the Cambridge Literary Festival. Don't usually do the show at book festivals, but this was the

show and yeah it was a sunny evening in Cambridge,

but we all gathered in a big arena or hall to make sense of it all.

And although we totally failed to do so, it was a great time.

Well, I had a great time anyway.

So thank you very much, all those of you who came along.

And of course, the sequel is on

May the 11th at King's Place, which is the Monday after the elections, where all sorts of things

will be happening on that very Monday. And probably that Monday evening, which is great. You know, drama's being played out as we

try and make sense of it all. So do, if you can, come along to that. If it's okay with all of you,

I'm going to try and address the question, which comes up a lot at the moment and is argued by

some very distinguished columnists, Andrew Maher and others,

that Britain has become ungovernable or unleadable.

And that's part of the explanation as to why another Prime Minister totters in a period since

2016 where the kind of constant has been fragile prime ministers.

Is Britain ungovernable?

And then after that, we're going to come to your brilliant questions.

There are some fascinating questions or points about the Kirstama situation, which I won't

be exploring directly this week, if you want to get some of my take, go back to last week. And maybe

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