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forward slash red box right down to business this week I'm delighted be joined by

Francis Gibb making a first appearance on the Red Box

podcast and sadly her last, it's the last week at the Times having covered the law

for the paper since 1982, we'll discuss what's changed and what hasn't since then.

Times columnist Daniel Finkelstein explains

why he thinks a general election would be mad, but first Sam Coates, the Times Deputy Political

editor on who he thinks is to blame for everything.

Say it once, say it a thousand times.

I do wonder whether there is much in modern politics that can't be laid at Theresa May's door.

We have a leader who doesn't lead, lowering the bar for everyone else in

politics. Our politicians just getting worse or am I getting older.

Well nice cheering note to start on Sam. So why is everything Theresa May's fault?

If you look at the papers this morning and the coverage of the Nissan

Rao, so Nissan have announced that they're not going to make one of the off-roaders in Britain which they had in 2016 promised to build here.

Essentially it's a bitter, bitter disagreement between

between Romayners who all seem to be blaming Brexit

and levers who seem to be pointing to the decline of diesel and the internal problems

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