Hello, my name's David Rundsenman and this is Talking Politics. I have got Helen with me,

and we are going to try and make sense of where things are, not just in Britain, but with many

of the things we've been talking about this year, May, Merkel,

Macron, Mueller. And at the end, I'm going to answer some of the interesting comments I've had

about the idea of children getting the vote.

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So it is just me and Helen today.

Helen has dragged herself off her sick bed to be here.

We often feel that we have to say this is Wednesday morning.

Today that is a particularly important thing to note because we discovered a couple of hours ago that there's going to be a leadership

contest to see if Theresa May can carry on as Prime Minister and we won't know the result until

this evening and this podcast goes out tomorrow morning. So you will know something that we don't know.

We'll record a little bit extra tonight with some thoughts probably just from me about the final

result. But I think there's probably

quite a lot we can talk about without knowing exactly what's going to happen. I think Helen and I both

suspect that Theresa May will win this vote, though what counts as a win is an open question.

Before it was clear the vote was going to happen,

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