I'm Ed Vasey and we're going to be unpacking the politics of the day

from Labour's tricky week to the politics of mastermind.

Time to speak to two of our very own masterminds.

First of all, of course, Jane Merrick, the policy editor at the I-paper. Welcome, Jane.

Hello, Ed. How are you?

I'm all right, Jane. How are you?

I'm good, thank you. Nearly a bank holiday.

Yes, that's true. Is it next Monday?

Yeah, so we're going into the bank holiday.

Yeah, it's the trouble with using one of those phone calendars. They never tell you when the bank holidays.

My second guest is Albi Ammancona, a conservative commentator and a financial analyst.

Yes, but I thought phone calendars always told you when bank holidays were.

No, they don't.

I think maybe I need to look at your phone after this, Ed, because I'm almost certain they do.

Everyone's telling me I'm wrong.

I hate it when this starts like this.

Alby, how can you be a conservative commentator and a financial analyst?

How do you run your day?

Your calendar must be all over the place.

I'm very efficient. I'm very efficient.

Brilliant. Well, somebody who's not efficient. What a segue. Labor's tricky week. It's been quite a

week for Labour. On Monday, Kier Starmer announced his big EU reset. That went well, I thought. But as the

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