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Now, Tim Montgomery is here with us. Tim, welcome.

You are one of those people who, when you heard no doubt yesterday, the election was being called,

probably threw your hands up in the air and went, finally, they've done something right.

Because, I mean, I think for many people, it was time either to put the party out of its

misery or to make some kind of decision that made it look as if I said yesterday it's the most

prime ministerial thing I think Rishi Sunak's done isn't it I think it's one of his best

decisions yeah and in a way it was his interest to wait to hope suddenly that the skies would

open and not rain would come down as happened yesterday,

but like a gift from God would appear over the next six months.

But that was always unlikely.

Much more likely was that we would continue to get this drumbeat of bad news that has dog to Tory party for a long time.

Talk of defections, scandals with Tory MPs.

Yesterday's front page of the time,

talking about the party of Raw and Order,

the Conservative Party.

Stop arresting people.

Yes, stop arresting people.

So I think he took the right decision

for the Conservative Party in the country.

We all wanted to avoid in a summer

when it was endless speculation

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