If you looked at British politics and thought this is not normal, join me

Matt Chorley on my tour as I try to explain what the hell is going on.

For tickets go to my Timesplus.co. This is not normal. For tickets go to my times plus dot code of UK. This is not

normal. All of you being here is not normal. I couldn't believe when my good friend

Diane Adams told me we sold 50,000 tickets. So what I'm going to try and do is to try and explain why politics has gone so weird.

Now this is going to take about four or five hours.

There's the one that's the 2007 local government elections and I was

going to do David Cameron. So I asked him lots of really tough questions like why

should be remote conservative, why do you love corbals so much? What's your favorite farm animal?

If only I'd ask a follow-up question.

When Jeremy Corbden went on bumset, he left about your favorite biscuit,

he said, if forced, he would have shortbread. If forced. Who forced you to

have shortbread? And should be taken hostage by a Scottish terrorist.

And he's probably friends with them anyway. Hello and welcome to the Red Box Politics Podcast from The Times. I'm Matt Charlie.

Well there's nothing going on so who knows what we'll talk about.

But I've managed to cobble together three people who might

might find something worth discussing. Salma Char was a special advisor for

Sajid Javid most recently at the home office but just chose not to join him at the Treasury. We'll talk to her

about what exactly is going on inside government in particular in number 10 and the

risks of an election which may or may not be coming. Ian Martin Times

columnist is going to try to shed some light on what's going on inside the Tory party

and then Phil Collins type's columnist will turn attention on the Labour Party.

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