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the Ruck Rugby podcast from The Times.

Yes, I'm Patrick McGuire, in for Hugo Rifkin, and we're going to be unpacking the politics of the day, from the MPs accused of persistent knobheadery to the wittiest and wickedest political insults. With me now are two of the funniest, sharpest columnists, one would never wish to insult. It's Manvim Rana. Hello, Manvim. Hello. Thank you very much for this delicious donut. What's the jam inside of it?

It's, I take no responsibility. I didn't make them, but I think it's sort of chocolate. Oh, delicious. That's unconventional. And Matthew Paris. Good morning. Have you already had a donut? Yes. I have. Yes. I'm trying to tempt him to have another. No, because we always start this show kind of chomping and it's quite rude to our listeners, don't you think? Yeah, and, you know, especially you don't want claggy, sort of the sound of faintly masticative food in your mouth do. So let's talk about something even chewier, which is discipline the parliamentary Labour Party. We'll kick right off. I like what you did there. Thank you. Well, you know, sometimes those segues works, sometimes they don't, sometimes they're

too laboured, if you will. But Kirstama has suspended four MPs. I'll quit while I'm ahead.

Over a repeated breach of party discipline, they are Neil Duncan, Jordan, Brian Leishman, Chris

Hinchcliffe and Rachel

Maskell, names that might be lost on many people, but they've had the party whip removed,

meaning their citizen independence in the House of Commons, until such a time as Keir Stahmer

wants to let them back in. And Rachel Maskell spoke to Times Radio shortly after the news broke.

It's a sad day that it's reached that point because I've written to the Prime Minister

on more than one occasion about this issue and about the stories of my constituents

and why I've done this and even when I was speaking in the House, I explained the deep conviction

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