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Hello, this is the Red Box podcast. I'm Matt Jorley, and I'm back from my not-holiday. I was working

on the Times and Sunday Times Charlemn Literature Festival at sea. Lots of you who listen to

podcast, or some people who listen to podcast came up to me to say that they did when I was on the

QM2 crossing the Atlantic. So welcome along. All right, coming up on today's episode, then our

big thing today. He appeared before the House of Lords. He took on Liz Truss. He took on David Beckham.

I asked comedian Joe Lysett about this being the year he went political. That's coming up in

just a moment. Before that, on the radio show today, I spoke to Andy Street the mayor of the

West Midlands and asked him whether he regretted backing Liz Truss. How much of the cost of living

crisis, the problems with affordability, the state of the nation's finances? How much of that do you

put down to the Liz Truss Premiership, which you backed in the summer? Yeah, actually a very small

amount. If you look at what's driving inflation, just over 10% at the moment, it looks about the

back half of it is energy, and we know the source of the energy issue. That was there before,

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