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Should we crack straight in? Let's just go for it. Interesting first question given the local

election results.

Tom Baldwin and Mark Steers, these were our guests on the podcast, the main podcast last week, talking about their book about England.

Talked of piecemeal improvements in GBEU relations under Labour.

Stam has made no such proposition.

I see no evidence for optimism,

do you, from Jonathan Fogel or Fogel. I'm not sure how that's pronounced, but thank you, Jonathan.

Yeah. Matt, what do you reckon? Well, I mean, I agree with Jonathan in the sense that literally I see no evidence for optimism, but I have optimism. Scare, as we said in Friday's podcast, you know, seems

slavishly adherent to any kind of noises about, you know, sticking to the Brexit, making

Brexit work, a Brexit that works, you know, a refusal to countenance, youth mobility that the European Union put on the table last week.

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