Hello, you're listening to the Times Red Box Politics Podcast coming to you for the

last time for a little while, for me, Patrick McGuire. Yes, Matt Shorley's back on Monday.

But in the meantime, we had a great show for you today. For a big thing at 11 o'clock,

we spoke about the minor parties in British politics and debated whether this year might

be the year they finally break through. Spoiler alert, probably not. But anyway, in the

meantime, we spoke Prince Harry and much else besides with an all-star columnist panel

today, it was Melanie Reade and Robert Colville.

The columnists on Times Radio. Yes, it's a Friday, so we've got Melanie

Reade, Morning Melanie. Morning, Patrick. How are you? Happy New Year, and it's the 6th.

It's the 6th, the 12th Air Christmas, I can still get away with saying that. And we've

got Robert Colville from the Sunday Times too, Morning Robert. Good morning. How are you,

Robert? I'm well, I'm quite annoyed. I thought I'd got the politician, but I was 5 years

out on the birthday, so I'll have to keep thinking. Oh, who was your guest? Tom Watson.

Tom Watson, can we get a no-no, no? No, no. No, it's not Tom Watson. It's not Tom Watson.

Alas, so that's two incorrect guesses. I wish someone had told me because we were really

struggling for guesses for that last round. But anyway, Robert, I'm very grateful. It's

not Tom Watson, guys, if any of you at home were wondering who our mystery politician was.

Right, let's get straight into it, shall we? There's only one thing I'm afraid we're going

to talk about this morning, but it's fascinating stuff, totally unprecedented stuff from

Prince Harry in his memoir, Spare. A family dispute, Melanie. Do you have, do you have

more, I know you have a son who we often talk about and embarrass on this show. If you

just got the one son, have you got two sons? Oh, one son, but, you know, I'm very aware how

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