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Welcome to this special edition of the Times Opinion

podcast. My name is Tim Montgomery and we're meeting not just after a very interesting party conference season

But on Friday morning after UKIP win Clacton and come very close to austing labor in Hayward and Middleton and this morning I am

joined by Danny Finkelstein the columnist for the Times and also Phil Webster

the veteran political editor of the Times and now editing the Times

Red Box Daily Politics email.

Phil, perhaps I can start with you.

I don't know whether I'm being rude in calling you a veteran,

but you have observed a great number of political times during the period when you were political ed of the times. You're now

back studying politics for us again in the times. You've seen by election upsets

come and in go

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