Now, before we get started today, a bit of

moderately exciting news, I hope. We've got our final live show

of the year, next Tuesday, December 13 at a sold out Royal Alba Hall,

which is a bit weird, frankly. It's going to be our kind of end of the year review,

looking back at the craziest year in British politics, probably since last

year, frankly. And we know that quite a lot of you missed out on tickets,

and we're very sorry about that, and also that some of you who've got tickets

may not be able to make it to London, I've had a few messages like that

because of the train struts, etc. So we are going to make a live stream of the

event available exclusively to subscribers to the restus politics plus.

And if you may know, that's where you can sign up to avoid adverts and

get access to events and all sorts of other stuff. So just go to

www.therestuspolitics.com to sign up. It will not break the bank even in this

cost of living crisis. So we started 8pm next Tuesday night.

Join Rory and me live on stage as we try to cram 2022 into a couple of hours.

That's www.therestuspolitics.com. Sign up now and we'll send out the link

next Tuesday night. Enjoy the show.

Hello, I'm Alistair Campbell, once Tony Blair spokesman and now on my own.

And I'm Rory Stewart, once a conservative cabinet minister, and now independent.

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