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

Thank you so much for tuning in, wherever you are in the UK and around the world.

And as ever, well, it doesn't need saying, does it?

We have got so much to cram in in our time together today.

And like last week, I'm doing this from a beautiful studio.

So you should be able to relax about the quality of the sound.

It's going to be like listening to a symphony.

Anyway, first of all, if it's okay with you, I'll tell you what we're going to be doing in our

time together.

I'll give you a report back from the live shows last week, which included dramatic votes

on predictions about the fate of Boris Johnson.

Then, again, if it's okay with you, I'd like to reflect a bit about what the epic drama we are

living through tells us about the modern Conservative Party, because I think it's been an overlooked

dimension. You know, there's so much focus these days on, yeah, what Starm are doing about

labour? Oh, Labour this, Labour, they've got to change. Let's have a look at the modern

Conservative Party in the midst of this saga. And then we've got some

fantastic questions from many of you and there to come as well. Before I give the report on the live

shows, just a reminder, we've got kind of a few more days to do this. A lot of you, I hope, who emailed me asking for stickers with messages for the book, the prime ministers we never had as a Christmas present.

Hopefully a lot of you will have had the stickers. A lot more. I'm going to do some today. A lot more will have them later on in this week.

And there's just time if you are looking

for Christmas presents. It is Christmas sorted. The prime ministers we never had from Rab Butler to

Jeremy Corbyn, my new book. If you get that and want me to do a signed sticker, email me at the usual address,

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