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Go to www.spictator.com forward slash voucher to claim this offer now. Hello and welcome to Spectator Out Loud, where each week we choose some of our favourite pieces from the magazine and ask their writers to read them aloud.

I'm Patrick Gibbons and on this week's podcast, Douglas Murray details his encounter with Labour Leadership Hopeful and former Health Secretary, West Streeting.

Flora Watkins explains why the open garden scheme is the antidote to the Chelsea

flower shirt, and Nicholas Farrell says that local nudists are running wild near his home in Ravenna.

Up first, Douglas Murray.

The Labour Party seems to have ignored the advice I gave it in last week's column, and so we are going to be treated to

one of those down-market beauty pageants, where candidates for the Labour leadership spend

weeks talking competitively about the evils of Thatcherism, the nobility of minors, and the

perpetual threat of NHS privatisation.

We might also look forward to watching the leadership candidates go for a jog,

play football in an amusing manner, and eat this country's most disgusting foodstuffs

as evidence of their authenticity.

One of the candidates for this pie-eating competition is the now resigned health secretary,

Wes Streeting.

And on this particular candidate, I have some history to narrate.

I first encountered Streting many years ago after Umar Farouk Abdul-Mat-Halab had been

narrowly prevented from blowing up a plane over Detroit on Christmas Day 2009.

The underwear bomber, as he became known, almost succeeded in setting off a bomb, which, if he had succeeded, would have been one of the largest mass casualty terrorist attacks to date.

Wes entered the picture because Abdul Matalab had until recently been a student at University College London.

At the time, Streeting was the head of the National Union of Students,

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