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I doubt there is anyone in this house who is not shocked and appalled by the recent allegations.

Colleagues and many civil servants have told me their own stories of their

interactions with Mr Mountbatten Windsor, and they all betray the same pattern. A man on a constant

self-aggrandizing and self-enriching hustle, a rude, arrogant and entitled man who could not distinguish between the public interest which he said he served and his own private interest.

That is Chris Brandt at the Commons Dispatch Box, a minister of the Crown, not talking about a political opponent, but talking about a member of the royal family, the former Prince Andrew,

the former Duke of York. A decade ago, a year ago, even a month ago, hearing a minister say that

about a member of the royal family would have been simply unthinkable.

Is he reflecting something that has become part of a national public mood?

Not just about the former Prince Andrew, but about our overall deference to the royal family.

Are we done with the monarchy?

Are we demanding more of the monarchy?

Do we want to see the monarchy reformed?

Or are we happy to carry on?

We're going to spend this whole episode

debating public attitudes and your thoughts

on our royal family and the monarchy. Welcome to the

newsagents. The newsagents. It's John. It's Emily. It's Lewis. And as Emily was saying there,

we thought it would be a really good moment after the kind of cascade of headlines

and stories, obviously centering on Andrew and the Royal Family's response to the Epstein files

and the kind of long-running 15-year burn of the Andrew scandal, to take that as a starting point,

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