Hi, this is Pod Save the UK. I'm Zoe Grunewald. And I'm Cocoa Khan. This week, Kirstama is preparing to visit the White House. But with Trump clinging to Putin, can he persuade the US president to change his tune on Ukraine? I'll be speaking to the leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Ed Davy. And later, where is Kerry Badek? No, seriously. Have you

seen anything from her? Have I seen anything from her? I haven't, which I'm kind of fine with,

but I'm probably not the right audience because my entire ex-feed is just Rupert Lowe. Oh no.

Rupert Lowe and hardcore porn, I think, a weird combination. I didn't know you were a Rupert Lowe. Oh, no. Rupert Lowe and hardcore porn, I think.

I didn't know you were a Rupert Lowe superfan.

Don't try it.

Don't do this fake news to me.

This is not fair.

But anyway, we'll also be asking why the official opposition is missing in action.

So Zoe, it's lovely to have you back filling in finish this week.

He's on tour in the States and you're here with me.

I'm here with you and I'm very happy about it.

So thank you.

Well, before we get into the big news of the week, I need to tell you about this Elon Musk story.

I hate talking about this man, obviously, but it's just a bit mad. So Musk is leading the US Department of Government

Efficiency or Doge, and he issued hundreds of thousands of federal employees with an ultimatum.

And it basically said to respond to an email with the subject line, what did you do last week?

They had to respond to this or resign.

So, yeah, the email said, please reply with approximately five bullets of what you accomplished

last week and CC your manager. Musk then followed up on X. Failure to respond will be taken as a

resignation. So I guess Zoe, the question is, what have you been doing? Oh, this is like every worker's worst nightmare, right?

This is actually why I went freelance.

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