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Hello, I'm James Cook, Scotland Editor at the BBC.

And Celia Jeffrey has emailed newscast to say,

don't let Adam Goenholdey again, something massive always happens.

Well, you're not wrong, Celia. I wanted to be standing in for him.

Remember when Quasic Quarting said this, just after 2.30 pm on Thursday.

And you'll be Chancellor and Liz Truss will be Prime Minister this time next month.

Absolutely 100%. I'm not going anywhere.

Well, that was in Washington, DC, where he was meeting global finance leaders.

But by one of the morning, our time, middle of the night,

he was getting ready for a flight back to London.

The Chancellor of Duke's Sugar Quasic Quarting has not just left the British

Ambassadors residents here in Washington, DC.

He's left the entirety of the international monetary funds, annual meetings,

and gone home a day early, flying back.

And as is now customary when cabinet ministers have to fly home

and face the music, politics nerds were on the internet.

They were looking at these flight radar tracking apps,

watching Quarting's plane, which came in at 10.50 pm.

That's when we saw footage of it landing.

So here we go then. Returning to London from Washington,

B.A.292, ran about 200 feet now.

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