PMQ's unpacked on Times Radio, unpacking the politics and cutting through the crossfire. And we are as excited as I'm sure they are in the House of Commons to be back. I'm joined by the Sunday Times' Gabriel Programme. Hello, Gabriel. Hello. Thank you for being with us. I feel strange to say hello because I was talking to you mere moments ago. Hello again. But here you are again. And by the comedian John Harvey. Hello, John. It's lovely to be here.

Lovely to have you in.

How are you? I feel strange to say hello because I was talking to you mere moments ago. Hello again. But here you are again.

And by the comedian John Harvey.

Hello, John.

It's lovely to be here.

Lovely to have you in.

How are you?

Yeah, good, thanks.

Sort of rested-ish over the summer. Have you been missing PMQs? Like the deserts, miss the rain? I kind of do. I know, it's such a geeky thing to say, but hey, it's a new term, we should say it.

You know, I was struck by, we've just had the big parade, you know, China, with Xi, Putin, Kim Jong-un watching all these scary new missiles go past. And they don't have this. And it actually makes me proud that as a sort of appalling as the dialectic discussion might be we're about to hear, still it's ours. And we have this and the ability to have free speech, which is obviously going to come up over the next half hours. There's something to celebrate, so I'm excited. Well, if you want to see our beautiful faces, I should remind you that we're on the Times Radio Politics YouTube channel as well. You can watch and listen there, as well as seeing all the questions as they come along. Look, big news has just happened. As we're speaking, it's barely what, 20 minutes since Angela Raina has admitted she didn't pay enough stamp duty on her second home. She's referred herself to the standards watchdog. There are questions over how long she's going to laugh. There are politicians, Gabriel, who could twist on their feet rip up the questions that

they just written for PMQs and ask them about this and I would put it to you that

Kemi Beanoch is not naturally one of them I was going to say I'm I'm confident now that we

will be um learning a lot more about her position on free speech on tax rises which will

will or won't

happen in the forthcoming budget. Maybe asylum hotels. Possibly asylum hotels. And who knows,

maybe we'll get into Rachel Reeves' plans for the Parliament. But yeah, this is one of those,

this is one of those occasions where there is a great whopping target and kemi does just have to aim her

bazooka at it. I think it would be bewildering in the extreme if she did anything other than

go down Route 1. Yeah, I mean, I think it would be bewildering in the extreme. It would be an

extraordinary decision. John, I for one, am personally not entirely confident in ruling it out. I can see it in your eyes. Well, we've been here before, haven't we? We've had this sort of absolute car-stein thinking of where she's going to go, and then we've been surprised. There's a sort of contrary thinking, though. I totally get where you're coming from Gabriel, and it's such a huge story. It would be bizarre if she didn't mention it.

Although, again, that's the kind of thing you might.

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