Hello and welcome to The Rundown, a podcast from Politics Home.

This week is our annual Christmas special episode, but instead of reviewing 2025 in politics,

hosting a very special quiz, seeing how much my fellow reporters can remember about another mad 12 months in Westminster.

You can play it along at home too, so let us know if you can do better than our teams. And there'll be a text version of the quiz online at politicshome.com that I'll link to in the show notes if you're looking for a fun way to spend your boxing day. But here to play live in the studio, I have three teams of intrepid hacks, starting with Zoe Crowther and Matilda Martin from Politics Home. Team two are two more poll home reporters, Tom Scottson and Harriet Simmons. And it wouldn't be a rundown Christmas without friend of the pod James Hill back for his fourth year, I think, from the spectator. I need to get some friends. Yeah, yeah. But this year we've also drafted in Zoe Grunewald, Westminster Headers at the lead and political broadcaster to join him on our third team. Woo. Right. So the format will be as follows, and which is not at all stolen from a popular annual TV quiz, but there will be five rounds. Each of three questions, our teams will write down their answers. And at the end of each round, they'll reveal their ignorance slash brilliance. Nick, you can delete, which is appropriate in the edit. And there might be some bonus points available too. So without further ado, let's get started with round one. While you're answering these questions, please think of a team name for each of you. Although remember, we do have a clean rating for language on Apple Podcasts, and I would like to keep it that way. Woke. Right. So round one, question one, there have been 12 ministerial departures from the

Stama government so far. Can you name three of them from this year? So I don't need all of them,

but three ministers that have departed from the government this year, okay? Question number two.

Oh God, oh god. I'm sorry. You can be thinking of this as we'll go.

I'll give a time at the end of the round to go back.

Question number two.

Yeah, that's who I was thinking of.

Kirstama was told off by a teacher during a visit to a primary school this year for doing what?

Thanks, Harry.

Yeah. And question number three from round one.

Which British politician charges more for a personalised video message on cameo?

Is it A, Niger Farage or B, John Burko? Who charges more? Berko or Farage?

This is a dynamic marketing. I've seen the politicians fluctuate. Okay, okay. Well, this is taken from the beginning of December. And bonus question, who would you pay more for? Well, actually, the bonus point is for if you can name the exact amounts or if you can get within, you can get within five pounds of the exact amount, then I'll give a bonus point. So those are the questions.

Anyone need any questions reading out again?

I think that.

Otherwise, it's a liberty.

What's he doing?

I don't know how much, though.

So team names, first of all.

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