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Hello and welcome to the Red Box Podcast on The Times, I'm Matt Chorley.

This week it's like deja vu all over again.

A government divided, another UKIP leadership election and Joy of Joy's The Edstone is back in the news.

In a moment we'll hear from this week's guest but first some housekeeping last week I

asked you to review the podcast on iTunes and we've had I think it's sad to say

mixed results obviously modesty prevents me from reading

out the one saying great podcast of three topic styles works well. Expect nothing other than

the best from the Times Quality journalism and debate that is more often than not

also hilarious. I won't read any of those out. I'd like to slightly take issue

with the one that says nothing will make you feel so much better about the

melstrom of British politics and the dolcest if deeply posh tones of Matt Chorley

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