Welcome to Tisky Sour. We have three massive stories for you this evening. Columbia has elected

its first ever leftist president. We're also going to talk closer to home about the conservative

party, making up various lies and giving misleading statements about the RMT, who are about to go

on strike, and we're talking about the story, the scoop of the weekend that disappeared. It was

about Boris Johnson and Carrie Johnson, then Carrie Simmons, and the Times published it and then

unpublished it. We're going to discuss why what happened there? You'll be delighted to know,

joining me this evening back on the show is Barnaby Rain. How are you doing, Barnaby?

I am always glad to be here, Michael. It's chipped me right up, lovely to see you. Lovely to see

you too. You will be seeing more of Barnaby over the next week. I'll be explaining why at the end

of the show. Columbia has elected a new president, his name is Gustavo Petro, and he has had a pretty

interesting life to say the least. At age 17, he joined M19, a revolutionary guerrilla group engaged

in an armed struggle to bring about democratic reforms in Columbia. As part of that struggle,

he spent 18 months in prison on arms charges, but in 1990, M19 abandoned arms struggle,

in favour of electoral pursuits. Petro was elected a representative to Columbia's Parliament,

and went on to become mayor of Columbia's capital city, Bogota. He has won the presidency

backed by a broad coalition of left-wing parties, and after that victory, thousands gathered

in Bogota to celebrate the end of decades of right-wing rule. Petro ran on a platform of

environmentalism, racial justice and anti-neoliberalism, with his manifesto, including policies such

as free university education, pension reform, and an end to new oil exploration. Petro was also

promised to tackle growing political violence and widespread poverty, and these pledges proved

very popular. Petro won 40 percent in the first round of the presidential elections two weeks ago.

That was 12 points higher than his closest competitor, and in yesterday's second round,

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