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I'm joined by George Eaton and Stephen Bush for a review of the political year.

And then Stephen stays on and John Elage joins us to talk about our favorite sieges in history.

Yes, we're Demob happy.

Welcome to our special End of Year round- up podcast where I'm joined by George Eaton

our political editor and our staggers editor Stephen Bush to review the

political year. George I'm going to start with you. What was your low point of

the year? Well the low points of the year has to be, I suppose the Conservatives winning a majority.

We, as usual, had hoped for a labour victory.

And I suppose it was stunning in both that it meant five years of

the conservatives in power but also in in how I like others expected to hung parliament and it was a moment of

is that a moment of personal sadness that we all read the cabinet office manual

or whatever it was and I'm never gonna get that two hours of my life back.

And on election night I I have to say, I think my personal low point of elect,

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