Hello, Happy New Year and welcome to the first political party of 2022. I hope you had

a good Christmas. I hope you've had a great start to the year and what better way to start

the year on this show than this phenomenal episode with Alistair Campbell. He sets a frantic

pace from the outset and he doesn't let up and it's got all the things you would want

for Manus to gamble brilliant stories from his time at number 10. But a lot more contemporary

stuff. I didn't just want to talk to him because he's been on the show a couple of times before

and obviously anything that comes up about New Labour is great. But I'm really interested

in what he thinks about stuff now about where Labour should be, not just on the traditional

stuff, but we talk about whether he's woke or not. I mean, there's so many really good

stories in here, things I've never talked to him about before and he hammers me for stuff

that will become apparent. So this is it's just an absolute corka. I'm not surprised

at all that he always delivers, but it's just a cracking way to start the year. I can

announce some future guests. Now, you may remember Neil Kinnock was meant to be the guest

on this show. We had to move things around a bit. So I can now reveal the guests for

the next four shows and these are every single one of them. It's just going to be absolutely

incredible. So here we go. You probably already know my next guest on the 24th of January

is Labour's deputy leader Angela Reiner. I cannot tell you how excited I am about that.

I think Angela Reiner is one of the most exciting talents in modern politics. And I'd like

politicians who look and sound a bit different, who have their own style, who feel like they're

not just trying to sound like everyone else, as well as being talented, which is the crucial

thing, of course, but I think there's something really exciting about Angela Reiner. I cannot

wait to talk to that. So I'm Monday the 24th of January. Then my next guest, two weeks

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