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It's Lewis here. It's coming up to, in fact, it's just gone, five o'clock.

And we always said on this podcast that we would be really transparent and open with you and show our workings

about how the news is made. And we recorded the podcast this afternoon as normal and we were

just at the point of hitting publish when some news dropped. Suella Braverman, the Home Secretary,

the darling of the Conservative right, had resigned.

And this sent all of Westminster and all of us, as you can imagine, into our phones,

trying to find out what Earth had just happened and why.

And we knew something was a bit amiss through the course of the afternoon,

because not long after Prime Minister's questions, we heard that the PM, who was due to be making a factory visit with all the press there and she was going to do a broadcast interview clip, suddenly pulled

out. We were told by a Downing Street that it had all been laid on but she wasn't going to be

doing it anymore and they'd said just this morning that it was going to be on. And so obviously

everyone's

eyebrows raise into their foreheads and start to wonder what's happening. And given how difficult

and icy the atmosphere has been, lots of speculation about is Liz Trust going to resign and all

this sort of stuff. And it turns out, no, she was actually talking to her home secretary

about her resignation. Now, as I say, details of this are still emerging. But it seems that the

technical reason for the resignation is around a breach of the rules on a security matter. And I've

just got in my hand, it's just been

tweeted out by Suella Braverman, her letter to Liz Trust explaining why she's resigned.

Earlier today, I sent an official document from my personal email to a trusted parliamentary

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