Hello, this is the Webbox Podcast. I'm Matt Chaudy bringing the best of my times radio

show you can listen live Monday, Friday, 10 till 1, on your DB radio, on your smart speaker

or on the times radio app. Although, actually, I'm not here next week, so Patrick McGuire

is going to be looking after you. So that will be nice. Right, coming up on today's

episode, Clio Watson used to work in the corridors of power. Now she's written a filthy book

about politics. It's called whips. Chill, tell us why she's written it. What was it like?

Baby sitting by us, Johnson. And Mary had a frosthoppe, has voiced up some of the filthiest

bits. So that's a real treat on the podcast today. At a moment, we'll have the columnist

panel, but as we always do on a Friday, let's take a look at what we learned this week.

When it comes to picking fruit and veg, we learn that Tory MP Tom Hunt can help out.

I had four months in the fence, sorting radishes. And we learn that to ease coffees to

well-abovement aren't close. Do you have the home secretary's phone number? Do I have

her phone number? I'd probably do somewhere. Why didn't you message her then? We learned

that TV Wildman Steve Baxter almost became an MP. I spent a good while working with Caroline

Lucas at the Green Party and following her around Parliament, learning about what she

did. And it taught me that I just couldn't do it. I just couldn't work in politics. We

learned that Dominic Robb won't stand at the next election, but he can't sail off into

the sunset. The sea was actually closed. We learned that Tim Shipman knows me dinner.

If we get through six questions with that reference to Boris Johnson, I will buy a very expensive

dinner. Winner, winner, surely dinner. There we go. Well, I'm delighted, actually, it's

time we had dinner. We learned that confronted with Andrew Bridgens' nonsense, Penny Morden,

has the best putdowns. All of this disinformation was spread by the BBC itself. I think we should

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