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Pantheon macroeconomics, chief economist.

Ian, we've got a quick word on the Prime Minister in the UK as she delivers her speech at the Conservative annual

party conference with a little bit of a dance to begin to Abbot Dancing Queen.

What are we expecting from the Prime Minister and are you expecting anything that really changes anything at all?

I think the speech will be, I'm doing the condensit here, but the speech essentially is going to be a please don't fire me.

That's really, she has no great vision. She just wants to remain as Prime Minister for no apparent reason.

She's speaking to the party. Oh no, she's speaking to a few thousand old white people. I mean that is a conservative party and it's so unrepresentative, but they're the ones ultimately who determine

whether she gets to keep the job.

She seems to want the job very badly.

I can't think why.

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