Hello and welcome to Not Another One with me Steve Richards, Ian Martin, Tim Montgomery and Miranda Green.

Thank you very much for tuning in this, our second episode of the week.

So you have the whole box set for this week.

And it being the weekend, assuming you are listening at the weekend, maybe you're listening in the week.

Doesn't matter.

We thought we would look at who kind of is the build-up to the budget and that's going to swamp everything in the days

following that. And obviously we will be focusing on that as well. But in advance of that,

who are the figures who have made their mark since the general election in this extraordinary

fragile landslide parliament and see who we come up with, really, mainly in the

House of Commons, doesn't have to be in the House of Commons, but who's made their mark within

the context of this new political landscape? So who's going to go first? Miranda, who do you think

has made a mark? I guess in a positive way, but it could be a negative way.

Yeah, well, it's a bit like who's in the great game of snakes and ladders that is, you know, our parliamentary system.

I suppose it's sort of who's currently up and ladder, even if they might fall down a snake in a few weeks time, isn't it?

So it's always a bit of a bit of a difficult game

this. But I mean, I do think the kind of star of the cabinet so far for me is West

Streeting because I think he's continued to do what he did in opposition in that role as

Health Shadow, which is just be very outspoken and not afraid to, you know, confront people with what their prejudices about the health and social care system actually mean in practice.

And, you know, he does ruffle a lot of feathers. I mean, I do know people who work inside the NHS who do not like him one little bit.

But for others, that will, you know, others will say, well, he'll wear that slightly as a badge of pride

because it shows he's not, you know, scared of taking on vested interests.

But I also think he's, you know, he's very good at seeing the complexities that

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