Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the podcast with me, Steve Richards.

Thank you for tuning in.

And as ever, we have got such a lot to cram in in our time together. It's very interesting. There are

nearly always, to be honest, when I contemplate what I'm going to be reflecting on in our time

together, there is always two or three kind of options. And like writing columns, actually,

you know, there was a sort of agony.

Even when I was doing it twice a week, sometimes three times a week, what was going to be

the choice.

I was very tempted to reflect and delve deep on the labour issue of the £28 billion for its

green recovery programme and the wider issue of the 28 billion pounds for its green recovery program and the wider issue of tax and spend.

And we will definitely as a cooperative need to return to that very, very soon, perhaps next week.

We need also, and there's some questions about it when we come to the questions, reflect a bit on foreign policy and Ukraine and the Middle East and, of course, the potential of the Trump presidency in November. So much happening. But if it's okay with all of you, I'm going to reflect a bit about the attempted coup,

the embryonic coup against Sunak, because insurrections, well, I find them fascinating,

and they are complex and give me the space to do a bit of contextualising about insurrections and when they are effective

and when they are not, as well as looking at the specifics of this one.

And so that's what I'm going to do.

Then we will turn to your brilliant questions.

There are more suggestions about what Labour's slogan should be at the next election.

We have another barometer figure, a Tory who voted Tory last time.

What are they going to do this time?

Part of our focus group, we've got all kinds of fascinating questions, say foreign policy comes up, more about the contrast with

1997. I kind of reflected on some of the mythologies of 1997 in the podcast a week ago.

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