Hello, good evening and welcome or good morning, good morning,

whenever you're listening to this, to the latest edition of the For The Many podcast.

Jackie, somebody's counted up and we've done 90 podcasts so far, so I'll have to work out when the centenary is reached.

I don't quite know how we're going to market, though.

Are you going to buy me champagne or something like that?

Am I going to sit here in my front room with a little flute of something fizzy?

I think our listeners ought to donate, seeing as we give them such lovely free entertainment every week.

You're right. Let's find a PO box and they can send expensive presents there.

Right. Let's tell everyone what we're going to talk about this week. It won't surprise anyone to know that we will talk about the Tory leadership contest.

Donald Trump, G20, Vladimir Putin, possibly a little bit

about the Lib Dem leadership. You've been recording, and I've been recording promos for the

For the Many podcast, which we anticipate going live on LBC this week. I've been on the Andrew Marr program

this morning, and the Labour Party has been in a bit of turmoil this week. So, Ian, you've been on the Andrew Marr program this morning and the Labour Party has been in a bit of turmoil this week.

So, Ian, you've been on trains, planes, automobiles all around the country doing your Tory party hustings duty.

How come you didn't get a helicopter when clearly the other two got a helicopter each?

I did, but don't do anyone.

Did you?

Is that because you were making such a fuss about not being able to get back from Manchester after 8.30 at night?

Well, it's a long story.

Because this story gets worse and worse because the Marr program rang me on Friday. And as you know, I have this thing where I hate saying no to the Andrew

Mell program because it is the program that everybody in politics watches. So if you get invited on it. You don't like saying no to... You don't like saying no to anything. You're just the boy that can't say no, Ian. Well, I don't like saying no. You're absolutely right. But, of course, nobody knows the occasions when I do say no. And I do say no more often than people think but um and I nearly said no to Andrew

mar because I would have been away from home for four days and I quite like being at home sometimes

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