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Did you read with Tim Montgomery.

Well, it's been a long time since we've had a Did You Read podcast, but we are now back after the summer,

and it's been an eventful summer in politics with reshuffles and party conferences.

So to judge the status and the health and the strength of our three or is it four party political leaders in Britain,

I'm joined by Phil Collins, the chief leader writer of The Times and two of our regular columnist Rachel Sylvester and Alice Thompson.

Can we start off with you Rachel please and talk about David Cameron in many ways he's in a very

strong position his party seems more united behind him than for some time the

economy seems to be recovering. He still has his

ideal labor opponent in the Ed balls, Ed Miller Band leadership team, but he's still behind in the opinion polls he still has this

challenge of the electoral geography with UKIP having split the right-wing

vote how do you see his status particularly after the reshuffle that he's

just conducted and you've written about four Tuesday's times? The summer seemed to

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