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The Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics with me, Steve Richards, the weekly podcast.

Thank you very much for tuning in wherever you are

around the UK and indeed the world. And as ever, in our time together, we have got a lot to cram in

today. I'm going to reflect if it's okay with all of you on the themes of Rishi Sunak, Kyr Stama, tax and spend and the Times newspaper.

It's all interconnected. I promise you it will make sense. Some of you might have already got it.

Indeed, one of our listeners has written a question about it, Andrew Kitchin. I'm going to make a whole theme of your question, Andrew.

We've got a

brilliant range of questions on such a fantastic range of topics, but one of them is this running

theme of should we change this voting system, electoral reform. I said I'll do an electoral reform

special for all you electoral reform freaks out there. Well, I haven't got the energy for that yet,

but we're going to come close with some of your questions, but don't worry, those who don't share

that passion, it will be fleeting before we move on to other issues, loads to get into our time

together. And as you might have noticed, as you are running, walking your dog along the

canal or the Australian beaches or cooking or baking bread, hopefully you'll notice the sound

quality being really, really great now because I'm recording in a studio. Some of you have

kindly emailed and said, oh, Steve, yeah, we love your podcast,

but the volume's a bit low this week or stuff.

Well, if you saw where I was recording my podcast until my appearance in the studio today,

you would not be surprised that every now and again there was, how should I put it,

a kind of technical hitch. Anyway,

you're going to hear it so melodious now as we go about our activities and make sense of this

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