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Hello and welcome to start your week from the bunker.

It's Monday the 9th of February.

I'm Andrew Harrison. And here to catch you up with the news stories that will your week from the bunker. It's Monday the 9th of February. I'm Andrew Harrison.

And here to catch you up with the news stories that will probably be shaping the week ahead, no guarantees, is Gavin Esler. Hello, Gavin. How are you doing?

Hello, good morning. Are you still punched drunk from last week's Mandelson Fest?

Well, this one will run and run, won't it? I mean, we've had a choice between the clash. Should I stay or should I go for the Prime Minister? And also the great BBC slogan, Deputy Heads must roll. So we've had Morgan McSweeney quitting. So, and I think it's only just begun. It's going to be a very interesting month, it seems to me. Well, let's get into that. I mean, I guess the question the top sir is preoccupying us at the moment is, will we have

the same Prime Minister this time next week? The Peter Mandelson scandal does continue to

reverberate. Its combination of money and treachery is unmatched in modern politics.

And Morgan McSweeney has, as you say, already quit. Is it at all possible the only world leader

to be brought down by Epstein could be a fastidious British human rights lawyer who never even met him,

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