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Hello and welcome to the Red Box podcast from The Times, I'm Matt Surely.

This week it's a spin doctor's special as I'm joined by three people who used to practice the

dark arts in Westminster before they saw the light.

I'm not quite sure what the collective noun is for a group of spin doctors.

A briefing maybe, a spin, a denial.

Yep, let's go for a denial of spin doctors.

So on the panel this week is Aisha Hazarika,

who had the unenviable task of trying to make Ed Miller Band and Harriet Harmon sound funny.

Katie Perrier, whose PR Magic helped to get Boris Johnson into City Hall, and Sean Kemp, who knows

more about Nick Clegg and the inner workings of the Lib Dems than is healthy.

Each has written for Red Box this week on how they see some of the burning issues in Westminster today and we start with

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