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Hello and welcome to the Sophie Ridge on Sunday podcast.

On this week's show, we were joined by the Home Secretary Pretty Patel.

We discussed the easing of lockdown, questions over Robert Gemmrich's position,

and she also accused some Labour MPs of racism.

The Welsh First Minister had a message for Boris Johnson and we heard some reaction to the

sacking of Rebecca Long Bailey.

As usual on the podcast, we're joined by Matt Lavender.

Hello. I'm very well. How are you?

Yeah, not too bad. We went out and about this week, didn't we? Which was a novelty.

Very exciting. Yeah, we managed to break out of the kind of working from home routine,

get back on the road, do a bit of filming, which was great. And we went and did a film about education, which we both feel is a really, really important issue

that maybe hasn't got as much attention as it should have done in recent months.

Yes, exactly.

It was our first film since the beginning of lockdown.

And I think if any regular watchers of the show will know,

that we were always very keen to kind of get out of

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