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Please welcome to the newscast studio.

Although actually you've been in the newscast studio before,

but just in your old job,

but he's my new colleague, Matt Chorley, hello. I was in your old studio as well this is much nicer.

Oh yeah this is probably not as nice as yours. Soft furnishings.

How would you sum up your first week as a five live presenter? It's been a lot of fun. It's been quite hard work. I didn't think it could have gone better. I mean, you know, with all these things, you fret about the first show. But then it's not a sitcom or a Netflix series.

It does have laughs. It does have laughs. But like where the first episode is really key.

Yeah. You know, there's danger you put all of your eggs in the show one and then you've got to do it again the next day the next day.

But we had Kierstam on the first show and obviously we had lots of conversations about how to word

the question about the state of the economy and the winter fuel payments and what

exactly you might do on ticketing regulation.

And the story that got us all the coverage was about the cat.

Have we got a name for the cat yet?

No, so I interviewed him just before the election.

Yeah.

And he told me then that as part of the like preparing the family

for the possibility of moving into

number 10 his children were lobbying for a dog a German Shepherd I was quite

worried about that's quite a large dog yes and there's an already famous cat

there exactly and a big German German Shepherd quite big and there's an already famous cat there. Exactly.

I mean two things.

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