Hello and welcome to the Political Party podcast. This one featuring former

chancellor of the Exchequer, had current editor of the evening standard George

Osborne. And what a day to be talking to on the day that Theresa May announced

she would resign if a Brexit deal passed, if I'm when indeed, and the night that

the comments held those indicative votes. So it was exciting anyway, it was even

more exciting to talk to him. And he's obviously saw that I've followed for a

long time being obsessive about politics. And I've always had a

fascination with people who really enjoy politics as a pursuit. And I've always

had the sense that he was one of those people. And obviously he was a high

flying individual as a youngster. So someone that I've followed for a long time

was fascinated by what he and David Cameron did to the Conservative Party in

modernising it. So he's someone that's you know, I feel like I've been following

for years and he's still so young. And it's it's a brilliant interview because he

has so many really funny stories. And I won't ruin anything. There's some brilliant

stories. And on top of that, there's some really deep proper politics in it

about his own politics, but also about the Conservative Party, the pressures in

the Tory party, what he thinks about politics now, the way forward for Brexit.

So there's a lot of hopeful stuff in there. And what is really incredibly

that he mentions this in the interview, the longest serving chancellor, which for

someone so young really is quite incredible. He was shadowed chancellor at 33.

So he's got a really unique perspective on politics and he's still very active

and still very influential. And you get the sense, I suppose with a lot of the guests,

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