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Yes, I'm delighted to confirm that Big Ben is

bogging again for the return of political thinking in 2020.

Apologies for the rather longer Christmas break than usual.

This was a week in which Boris Johnson invented a new tongue twister.

Bunga Bob for Big Ben's Brexit.

You can't do it.

Bunga Bob.

Bunga Bob for Big Ben's Brexit Bungs.

And no one can say it.

We're working up a plan so that people can bunga Bob for being Ben Bung.

Bunga Bob for the Big Ben Bungs.

And let me just tell you, that's the seventh time I've tried saying that.

The only time I've got it right.

Now that's out of the way.

I thought all two before I introduced my guest on this week's political thinking

about politics in the new era.

We're in the politics of a majority government.

And I'm struck by the enormous number of young people I work with

who can barely remember what that is like.

This is the politics of the Blair era or the Fatcher era

in which what parliament says and does what the opposition do

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