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Hello and welcome to The Spectator Podcast. I'm Lara Prendergast.

This week, Boris Johnson breaks cover and speaks to The Spectator about his plans for Brexit and beyond.

State-side, the presidential election is hotting up as Democratic candidates fight for the nomination.

And finally, we ask, why are people so obsessed

with being in a relationship? First, as postal ballots for the Tory leadership contest is sent out

to party members this weekend, Boris Johnson makes a final leadership pitch. This time, in an interview

with our political editor James Forsyth and Deputy Political Editor Katie Balls.

Katie and James are joined by Andrew Jimson, sketchwriter and author of a biography on Boris Johnson.

In this week's spectator, James and I interview Boris Johnson. The Tory leadership frontrunner

tells us why he believes his rival Jeremy Hunt's Brexit plan is the height of folly. He goes into the details of his

no-deal Brexit plan and he explains why, despite some negative press, he believes that actually

he can be an asset to the Scottish Conservatives. James, what struck you most from that

interview? Well, there are kind of three Boris interview modes. The first is when he is playing it for laughs.

He wants to be verbally entertaining more than anything else.

That was definitely not the case in this interview.

There was an intensity about him, but there isn't normally.

And he was being quite closely guarded.

He didn't want to say anything that was going to be perceived as a

gaff. The second type of Boris, which I interview, which I nearly all journey to be familiar

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