Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the weekly podcast with me, Steve Richards.

Thank you very much for tuning in.

Sorry, it's arrived a bit late.

I was waiting to see whether there was going to be a Brexit deal or no deal.

And it's like waiting for Godo.

It could have been weeks before you got this podcast.

So the podcast is going ahead while we wait for Boris Johnson to descend on Brussels

godlike to negotiate masterfully with various counterparts in the European Union. We'll come on to that

in a minute. Before we do, thank you all those who have asked for labels for the book,

the Prime Minister's reflections on leadership from Harold Wilson to Boris Johnson, out now in

paperback. Many of you have. I've been kind of inundated. So if I've missed any, please email me

again and I will do the label, the message and

a signed copy, which you can then stick into the kind of book. It's the next best thing to

signed copies at book festivals. It's the kind of book signing equivalent of Zoom. And it actually

seems to be working well and loads of

you have asked for this so please carry on doing this week I think after that it's going to get

too close to Christmas so if you're going to buy the book for friends relatives or yourself

for Christmas and you want a message just email me with the message and I'll write it, sign it, and you need

the address as well. Some of you at first forgot to put the address, slight technical hitch,

and then off it'll go in time for Christmas. One other thing, rock and roll politics is live

at King's Place on December the 16th. It's like ancient history

returning. We're back and it's brilliantly done at King's Place, social distancing, all COVID

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