So good morning listeners. I know that the question on everybody's lips, Ian, is precisely how long are they going to bang on for this week in the podcast?

And some of our nicer listeners have in recent weeks, when we've said we're trying to make it shorter, have said, oh, no, no, we really love it when you go on for an hour and a half.

They like a bit of length.

And they're not alone in that.

And the rest of our listeners are so lovely that they don't say, yes, for goodness sake, cut it short, we can't bear it, or they just turn off halfway through one or the other.

So how long is it going to be this week, Ian?

Well, Jackie, it depends on how long we bang on about the Tory leadership,

because we have got a lot of questions, partly because I forgot to do all the email questions last week,

so we've got two weeks of email questions.

And by the way, if you want to email your questions, you can do so,

send them to Ian at Iandale.com.

And that's, of course, Ian with two eyes, because my mother just wanted to be awkward.

Actually, that's not true.

Do you know why I'm Ian with two eyes?

Is it Scottish or something?

I don't know.

It is.

The doctor that delivered me, Dr. Brown, was Scottish

and insisted on it.

But on my father's side, I have got a lot of Scottish heritage

anyway. That's hence my middle name being Campbell, which I've always hated. Oh, I like that.

Do you? Ian Campbell Dale. Yeah, yeah. No, I think that's good. I'm not so keen.

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