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

I'm Katie Balls and I'm joined by James Forsythe and Isabel Hardman.

And we're all celebrating after being shortlisted for a podcast award.

How is everyone feeling,

Isbel, what have you been doing since the news broke? I'm just delighted of being preparing

my thanks to my family, to God, to loyal fans of this podcast, particularly those who think

that we have names that aren't actually our own. Those are our favourite fans.

Yeah, exactly.

James, anything you want to tell us about your celebrations

since the news broke that we've made it onto a shortlist

for the first time on this podcast's history?

Well, I think we should thank our producers, Cindy Yu and Max,

who do such a remarkably good job of turning our audio into kind of

listenable quality. And I suppose in a way, it's a good interesting thing. It's been very odd,

because so much of how we used to do it was everyone kind of sitting around in the office.

And now we're all doing it from three different locations. So it'd be very good to all get back to be in the

same place. Yes, indeed. And it's probably enough talking about ourselves. So let's talk about

a politician who's set the cat amongst the pigeons with his own video, which some said was

self-focused. Others said was a great piece of communication. It's Rishi Sunak. Tomorrow's his budget.

And here's a clip from his video complete with orchestral music. I'll never forget. The team said,

oh, you've got to have a call. There are someone called Chris Witty and Patrick Valens.

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