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Hello and welcome to The Edition, the Spectators' weekly podcast discussing some of the most

important and intriguing issues within our pages each week with the writers behind them.

I'm Cindy Yu.

This week, politics becomes a little less volatile, as Boris Johnson achieves the biggest Tory majority since Margaret Thatcher.

So what happened in this election and what next? Plus, China has... as Boris Johnson achieves the biggest Tory majority since Margaret Thatcher.

So what happened in this election and what next?

Plus, China has interned over a million Uyghur Muslims in so-called re-education camps.

What is going on in Xinjiang?

And last, I find out about the joys of Mudlar King.

First up, what happened in this election?

The Tory majority is bigger than most guessed, with Labour having had an abysmal night.

Plus, not only was there no Liberal Democrat surge, the biggest Portillo moment of all came when Joe Swinson lost her own seat.

Katie Balls talks is Fraser Nelson and writer and broadcaster Steve Richards for post-mortem

and to look ahead to five years of a Johnson government. So we've had another, I suppose,

surprise in British politics. Ahead of the results, it seemed to be becoming a consensus opinion

that the Tories were heading to a very slim majority. That's what some polls were suggesting,

and I suppose the general chess in Westminster.

Fraser, were you surprised by the size of the Tory victory?

They are heading to a majority of 80.

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