Hello and welcome to not another one.

And yes, it is another one.

Thanks for joining us.

I'm Miranda Green and I've got Ian Martin and Tim Montgomery down the line to join me today.

Steve is taking a well-earned break, although doubtless, because we know Steve so well, chaps,

he will be glued.

Glewed to the whole, you know, labour turmoil wherever he is, weren't he?

Miranda, can I say he's on holiday and I've...

Yeah, right.

I've had three messages from him today about the Labour leadership context.

I think he'll be delving deep myself.

Yeah, exactly. He'll be delving deep into his, you know his delicious plate of Mediterranean, whatever

and holding forth maybe to the sommelier

on what he thinks will happen between Burnham and Streeting.

And we will of course be discussing

Burnham Streeting, Uncle Tom Copley and all

as they express an opinion on the leadership crisis at the top of the

Labour Party.

But we thought today, because there's going to be weeks of this, we thought we'd do one of

our tapass editions, i.e. we'll have three little plates of tempting discussions during

the course of our episode.

And today, we're chatting on Tuesday,

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