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Now, Patty, are you of a sporting disposition?

I've known, I've known sport, ah, the microphone's on,

I've known sport in my life, yes.

Ah, Adam, I know, has been talking to the newscasters about playing sport with politicians.

Yes, and squash often comes up on the podcast.

Yes, we were talking about squash a while ago but I've played ping pong with

Ed Vasey why because of the phrase parliamentary ping pong oh I see what you did there who won

it was a draw but in the real life the Commons always wins I'm told.

Was it really a draw or are you just saying that? It was really, no it was. You can have a listen.

Very good rally. We're quite evenly matched.

I'm being very kind to you.

Are you good?

I could be ruthless.

I think that's probably enough of that.

The ball then got lost.

It was an outdoor table and it went under a hydrangeer bush.

Did you crawl down and fetch it?

I did, I did, but he tripped on his and nearly broke his ankle.

But that's, we're being distracted because the serious news consumer will wonder what the point of that is.

And that's basically about parliamentary ping pong but inevitably we're taking a look

at the other legislature from Washington DC the big vote overnight there well actually

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