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The Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the weekly podcast with me, Steve Richards.

Thank you so much for tuning in, wherever you are in the UK and the rest of the world. And,

you know what I'm going to say next? As ever, we have got a lot to cram in in our time together

this week, some brilliant questions on a range of issues, actually, not just the Tory leadership

contest, a lot of other stuff as well. And I will be making, if it's all right

with you, a couple of notices, assembly notices, then I'm going to be reflecting on the lessons

from the rise of Liz Truss in relation to Kirstama. It will be a natural segue. You'll see.

You'll see. Remember last week, some of you were almost screaming for a

Keir Stama special kind of thing. It's sort of here, but it's linked to the rise of Liz Truss.

And then I say we'll return to your brilliant questions. So just a couple of notes is. A very

quick reminder, I'm at the Edinburgh Festival live every day from Monday, August the 15th, and it's

at 11 o'clock in the morning. It will be different every day in various ways, but the kind of essence

of it will be making sense, delving deep. Going back to the last time I was there, which was

2019 before the pandemic, that innocent summer

of a hung parliament as MPs plotted to work out what to do with Brexit, they were still

partially in control. What a world away. Anyway, more about that as we get closer to it.

And Patreon subscribers, thank you very much again for doing

so, your bonus podcast, looking at the relationship between David Cameron and Steve Hilton.

Much light is shone on all that we're living through now via that strange relationship.

That will be coming your way this week and it will detour briefly because it is illuminating.

Also, the relationship between Theresa May and Nick Timothy, her chosen special advisor along with Fiona Hill.

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