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journalism. So welcome to our unseasonably hot Monday podcast. Well, it is the summer. Yeah, but it's a

British summer. That's right. Got me there. Yeah. But it is beautiful out there. And we're still

sort of calling it the election podcast, but I guess it's the post-election

podcast now, isn't it really?

Well, well, the receipt of this third podcast has been so...

Yes, I think, you know, we're delighted with it.

And thanks for me...

I don't feel we should deny our public no well I mean

as you know always the last thing of our mind so so we've had a quite a big day today

shit's getting real isn't it is well I think it was probably the realest day so far in what is

admittedly a government that's not even a month old, which was Rachel Reeves

kind of delivering this financial statement. And it had been trailed a lot. And there'd been

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