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Hello, as is often the way with making a daily news podcast, we had finished recording

today's episode, then I left the office, and then I swiftly came back because there

was some breaking news.

And the breaking news is we've had the first dear Prime Minister resignation of Rishi

Sunak's government, and it's Gavin Williams in the Minister without portfolio.

You might know better as a former education secretary and a former defence secretary, both

jobs he got moved out of and as a former chief whip.

And it was his actions as a chief whip, the person responsible for party discipline in

the party and kind of some spillovers from that that has landed him in this position.

So let's do some deep textual analysis of the resignation letter with Alex Asaith,

who's stood outside a well-known pizza restaurant.

Hello, I was in said well-known pizza restaurant before I saw the breaking news about

the Gavin Williams and quitting.

Do you want me to go through the resignation letter that we've just had in the last few

minutes?

First of all, I want to know what pizza you had.

Oh, so I had the one with like Ham, olives and mushroom, which has got like a famous

name that I can never quite pronounce, but it was very nice.

Anyway, right, that's enough analysis of the pizza express menu onto Gavin Williams'

letter.

Actually, first of all, should we do the backstory before we do the letter?

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