Hello there and we're back. Welcome to Politics at Samadans, the podcast that gives you

everything you need to know ahead of a brand new term in British politics. That's right. Parliament's

been on pause. We've been on pause, but politics has not. So while I've been on the planes and the

yak farms of Mongolia and on the

bullet trains across China, what's being going on here back home has continued to trundle on.

Did you manage a little bit more of a break and a relax from the early mornings?

Oh, I may certainly did. I've been on a boat between Greece and Turkey. so staying at the front line of foreign affairs, I'd like to think.

Sam, you did the adventure version and I disported myself on the upper deck in the style of Kate Winslet that you've come to expect from me.

Well, I hope, Anne, that your glass was always half full.

Back home, it's been the usual political summer variety show, Angela Raina's third home in Hove,

homed interview. Her dry robe and her wineglass size made the papers and stories about whether

David Lammy would be, or wouldn't be, escaping a fishing fine after hanging out with

JD Vance with a rod, but not a licence. We've had ministerial resignations in the form of

Roshanara Ali, the Minister for Homelessness, over giving her tenants notice that she was

raising their rent by £700 a month. She was then accused of staggering hypocrisy by opponents

because her own department will soon make such conduct illegal for landlords.

Just like you and me, different political parties approach the sub-season with different

levels of enthusiasm and vigour. Some political parties went up a gear.

Reform UK managed weekly press conferences.

Kirstama was back in his happy place, which is abroad,

with a one-day dashed to the White House from his holiday in Scotland.

And some, and I hope they didn't think this is too rude,

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