Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the podcast with me, Steve Richards.

Thank you for tuning in because we have got a lot to cram in in our time together.

If it's okay with all of you, I'll be looking at when governments fall

contextualising Sunak's mountainous problems. When I say problems, I don't mean they've

appeared from nowhere. There is a context to those mountainous problems. But it is also interesting when the spell breaks for a governing party,

governments are often in trouble, bewildered, confused, divided,

making a mess of things.

But sometimes they still cast a spell that creates a sense of purpose and dynamism.

But when that spell breaks, it's over. And I'll be reflecting on that. And looking at the significance

or insignificance of shadow cabinet reshuffles in the light of Keir Stama's changes. So yeah,

a lot, a lot of things. And then, of course, a return

to your brilliant questions, some really interesting questions coming up and points. That will, I think,

invite further reflection in the weeks to come, weeks and months to come. We're in a new political

year where, yeah, and it's one that will lead one way or another

towards a general election. Before all of that, a few notices. I've got a new book out this month.

It's called Turning Points, Crisis and Change in Modern Britain from 1945 to Liz Truss.

And of course, it's available for pre-order now, wherever you

order your books from. I'll be reflecting more on the kind of themes in the book and the lessons

of which there are quite a few which apply urgently to now, because we could be on the edge of a turning point, couldn't we?

A change of governing party, but that in itself is not necessarily a turning point.

It depends what that new governing party does.

But what I thought I'd do now, just for a bit of fun, is to tell you the turning points that I identified and

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