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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Oscar Robinson. There are a few sawheads at 22 old Queen Street today.

It was the Parliamentarian of the Year Awards last night, but we have rallied together our sharpest minds, so I'm joined today by Tim Shipman, Michael Simmons, and special guest, Natasha

Faroes, who's going to be dishing the dirt on who she did and didn't like at the Parliamentarian

of the Year Awards last night. Because everybody wants to hear it. I should stress that my head

is very clear. Thank you very much. As is mine. Mines is an absolute state. I'm never drinking again. I'll put that on the record. I've heard that Michael was the last one out of the spy bar at the last chopper out of Saigon at 2.30 in the morning. Tim, this was your first Parliamentary of the year as political editor? It was. Yes. I've been on the judging panel for about 10 years and I've been coming for quite some time.

But I think actually it was one of the best parliamentarian awards I've been involved in or attended.

And for those who don't know what this is, you can either take this as the ultimate expression of Westminster sort of gazing at its own naval

or actually it's a brilliant lifting of the lid on what's really going on in Westminster.

So we sit down, we give awards to politicians, partly out of a sort of genuine love of democracy

in the parliamentary process and wanting to reward those who've done well.

Partly, I think, to sort of reward some of the nefarious behaviour as well as the genuine achievement.

And also to give gongs people who've caused mischief and trouble.

And the desire then is to see how people perform in a

room that is genuinely cross-party, that's quite a tough audience, that's full of hacks and flax and

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