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You're not going to believe this. In fact, I know you won't.

But it's now in fact seven weeks since the ill-starred, ill-fated, generally ill-mini budget.

The most recent moment when our politics spun out of control,

and one of its main authors, Quasi Quarteng, our blink of an eye, Chancellor,

popped up for the first time since his sacking yesterday,

saying he wasn't so keen on it after all.

I said actually after the budget, because we were going very fast, even after the mini

budget, we were going at breakneck speed. And I said, we should slow down, slow down.

And what does she say? And she said, well, I've only got two years. And I said,

you'll have two months if you carry on like this. And that's, I'm afraid, what happened. Now that led today to Jeremy Hunt's, his successor,

explaining just how wrong his predecessor had been as well,

not just Liz Truss.

And look, we could spend a lot of time, as we often do,

unpicking more Tory psychodrama.

And this time next week we'll be talking about

the Conservatives' Autumn statement

designed to respond to the Conservatives' mini-budget. But instead today, we're going to look at one area already broken,

but which the mini-budget had, to some extent at least, made worse. Housing. And no, I'm not

talking about mortgages and the housing market, subject to endless media and political discussion in the week since.

But instead, it's neglected little sibling in what is often called Britain's Housing Wild West,

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