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I'm John Thatcher with my good friend Simon Constable, writing for the Wall Street Journal and Barons and other distinguished publications, he's in the south of France where it is hot.

How hot, if you have to ask, you don't know what hot is.

Over 100 degrees.

Now, at least you can say for Simon, he's in beautiful country, and what breezes there are show up in Ossetani, to the south of him, to the west of him, to the north

of him are more severe temperatures in a bake-off in Europe. However, we come home to London for Simon

because he can help me with the details of a autumn budget being read by labor. Simon, there's

a hundred and sixty-five majority for Kirstarmer.

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