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Hello and welcome to the Safy Ridge on Sunday podcast. Today we have interviews with the deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab, Labour's Lisa Nandi and the Lib Dem's deputy leader, Daisy Cooper.

Thank you very much for listening.

I'm Sophie Ridge here in Westminster and with me is Scott Beasley.

Well, I say with me. You're not quite with me, are you? You're over at SkyHQ in West London. We're separated, aren't we on Sundays, Scott?

Sadly, I'm a bit further west. Yeah, exactly. What a week it's been. I feel quite exhausted, I'll be honest. I was going to say, you must be pretty tired particularly, I think, but yeah, for everyone,

it's been full on. I mean, the last few weeks have been full on.

And I think there's no sign of things slowing down, are there really?

Yeah, and I just feel like with the elections that we had this week, there are just so many

different strands to unpick.

There's what's happening in Northern Ireland with those

assembly elections. The Sinn Féin president saying that she is looking at a border pole within five

years. The fact that an executive might not even be formed because the DUP is so outraged about

the Northern Ireland Protocol. We'll hear about a bit more about that from Dominic Raab later.

And then obviously, you know, in Scotland, SMP dominance, potential resurgence for labour in some parts of the country,

but others saying that actually they haven't done enough.

Then you've got the conservative collapse in parts of the country, particularly the south.

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