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On this episode we talk about Richard Leonard and the fate of Scottish labour.

And you ask us, will the discontent on the Conservative back benches make a different in the next few months and is it more complex than it seems?

So Parliament has been back for a few days now and while Rouse rumble on within the Conservative

Party about potential tax rises or cuts in the budget in November.

You know, there's some drama over PMQs.

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