Hi, this is Steve Richards with Rock and Roll Politics, the podcast.

Not a normal podcast today, but a one trailing, a live show that's coming up, a virtual

rock and roll politics live that will be on the

King's Place website at 7 o'clock tomorrow. So if you go on the website and log on to the link,

you'll get this virtual show, Rock and Roll Politics, the lockdown special, live from my bedroom

or office or wherever I'll be. And there's a whole range

of things that'll be divided into two halves as usual. And the first half I'll kind of set the scene

by looking at Boris Johnson, his return from illness. Johnson, the leader, went ill. Johnson, the

leader, pre-illness. It tells us a lot about

leadership or the way we perceive leaders, I think, the way his illness has defined and shaped

his leadership or misperceptions of it, perhaps. Then we're going to have a look at the role of

the daily press conferences, which are really fascinating.

The relationship between the ministers and the scientists, which have multi-layered implications,

the speculation about the role of Dominic Cummings, the degree to which the scientists are independent,

and just the function of a daily press conference

where journalists are looking for new lines,

the government feels under pressure to deliver new lines.

It's another interesting element to this whole bleak coronavirus dynamic.

And then we're going to have a look at the way this government

still relatively inexperienced and new. It's a strange mix. This is the fourth term of a

conservative rule and yet this administration feels and is inexperience. Many people chosen because of their devotion to Brexit

rather than their experience in delivering policies rather than announcing them. And this is a government

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