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service. Hello I'm Helen and I'm Stephen and this is the New Statesman podcast and

Stephen do we have to talk about Europe? Shall we talk about Europe first? Are we not

talking about Europe later on in the podcast with our super secret special guest.

That will probably be revealed to people when they've clicked on the link. Yes, okay, that's a good

point. We will keep people waiting for the excitement that is Europe to come.

Let's do leadership first of all. So who knows what will

have happened by the time that you've listened to this but we've had an extraordinary

day in the office today. I mean the Tory party really do show labour how to backstab don't they?

We have this extraordinary situation where nominations are due to close at 12.

Boris Johnson had got a very nice hotel venue booked for his campaign launch.

Then Michael Gove came out without, we think now even texting Boris first to let him know, to say

that actually he thought about it and Johnson was a

rubbish leader he could do much better and he would be running I mean I think this is very last

minute because he didn't he Theresa May had got a lovely library set and she announced her policies and took questions from journalists.

That was all scheduled very thoroughly.

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