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...Lucy Fisher Miranda. Miranda Green Yeah....
...Lucy Fisher Resolution Foundation being a think-tank. John Burn-Murdoch Yeah, sorry, sorry....
...Lucy Fisher Stephen. Stephen Bush Yeah....
...Lucy Fisher OK, but can we agree you’ve made a loss? Miranda Green Oh, yeah. No, I’m really out of pocket. (Laughter) Lucy Fisher George....
...Lucy Fisher Professor Sir John Curtice, thanks for joining. John Curtice You’re welcome....
...Ben Zaranko, at the Institute for Fiscal Studies think-tank, said cuts to the civil service and a larger portion of the R&D budget “won’t be enough” to fund the defence spending pledge to 2030....
...I’d give it back....
...Lucy FisherIt doesn’t feed into, then, as sort of John Major-esque, end of an era, sleaze and decay narrative?...
...Lucy Fisher Robert, what are you looking at for the Budget?...
...He’s the anti-John Bercow in lots of ways. And John Bercow was a Conservative MP who became Speaker largely with the votes of Labour MPs....
...And to be honest, the plotters themselves typically are also a little bit of a rabble as well, I think we’d have to agree. I mean, I’d just say that there’ve been different parts of this....
...But who knows what would’ve happened if he’d become prime minister?...
...Lucy Fisher Roula, Robert, Gideon, thanks for joining. Robert Shrimsley Thanks, Lucy. Roula Khalaf Thanks, Lucy. Gideon Rachman Thanks. [MUSIC PLAYING] Lucy Fisher That’s it for now....
...So you’d think they would stand any chance of getting that demographic back or starting to rebuild support. They’d have to do more in the Spring Budget....
...Lucy Fisher OK. (Laughter) Miranda Green I would say a crepe sandwich would mean not much buy-in for that theory. Robert Shrimsley Well, where’d you close the adjournment in Portcullis House?...
...Lucy Fisher William, final question to you....
...Lucy Fisher(Laughter) Seen only in the entertainment districts of major cities....
...There are 36 contributors in total, including John Grisham, Celeste Ng and Emma Donoghue, and the collection is edited by Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston....
...“Forging documents and leaving evidence lying around is not what you’d expect from a professional organisation” such as the SVR, the Russian counterpart of MI6....
...Former Tory security minister John Hayes said the authorities “need to establish the source of the attack” as a priority....
...He’d been a huge figure, managing director of John Lewis....
...They’d had a huge influx of defectors from the Labour party and Change UK who’d sort of fallen in with them....
...I’d also say I slightly disagree with both of you that I think on the China question, and not just China but other autocracies....
...Nonetheless, if you’re Rishi Sunak, you know which one you’d rather have on your CV....
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