Hello and welcome to the Red Box Politics Podcast on The Times, I'm Matt Surely.

Now for a podcast which focuses on trying to explain what is happening inside the Westminster

bubble, it's perhaps no surprise that we normally focus on what is happening inside the Westminster bubble. It's perhaps no surprise that we normally

focus on what is happening inside the Westminster bubble, but that isn't the full extent of

politics. So I've delighted it in this special episode to join Jen Williams, the politics editor of the Manchester Evening News for a bus ride through

Manchester where we chat about yes Brexit but also housing devolution, the mayoralty, town centers and public transport.

In particular, buses.

Everyone is suddenly talking about buses.

You ate ages for a politician to talk about buses and then several come up oh you do your own joke.

It's been exposed to in the past I'm a bit of a bus nut and I confess that I like to make and to paint slightly in exact, very in exact.

Models of buses with happy passengers inside.

Now buses, they haven't been given the attention they deserve from politicians.

That's what I think.

But they are still the backbone of the public transport actually most of our

country well now you have a Chancellor with a well-known family connection to buses, right mum?

And a PM who likes to paint them. Yeah, four. Yeah.

Four. Yeah.

Yeah.

The good.

Yeah.

Cheers. Cheer.

What bus are we on?

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