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Hi, I'm Alfa.

I'm Manouche, and I'm Steven.

And you're listening to The New States and Podcast.

On today's episode we discuss Boris Johnson's proposals for tackling crime, and you ask us,

why do so many people in Westminster think there will be a general

election in 2023?

So we are now in the first week of recess.

Boris Johnson emerged into the news desert to announce a raft of measures to improve

policing and combat crime yesterday.

Steven, you're recovering it.

I'm wondering what you, what you made of, of his announcement.

It was a bit of a mixed bag, right?

And then this is going to be a horrendously bluerite episode from me.

There was lots of, I thought, kind of quite good stuff that we, we know, works from other bits of public sector reform.

So, you know, the idea of everyone having, you know, if you're a victim of crime,

you have a named police officer is, I mean, okay, even though anyone who has a GP in a major city

will just be like, I have a named GP since when?

But the idea, yeah, which we see in social work after baby pee, we obviously, you know,

if you go to a parent's evening, you'll, you don't just have a situation where they go like,

...