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Did you read? With Tim Mongh. Did You Read,

Read, with Tim Montgomery.

Hello and welcome to Did You Read, The Times Podcast.

Tim Montgomery is away this week, so Collins that's me is taking over just for

one week only to guide you through the articles have appeared in the Times this

week and I'm joined by three of our most distinguished political commentators, Rachel Sylvester, Hugo Rifkind, and Daniel Finkelstein.

And if you want to subscribe to any of these articles, please do go to the Times website where you can find them all. Politics is the art of

surprises but David Cameron is reverting to type with his pronouncements on

welfare immigration, crime, Europe and pensioners. Now senior tour are urging him to announce a big rise in the

national minimum wage as a way of making the voters think again about the Conservative Party.

People keep trying to rehabilitate Enoch Powell. Most recently it was Nigel Farage on TV on Sunday

who said that his basic principle of immigration causing tension was right.

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