Well hello, thank you for downloading, this is the Times Red Box podcast, I'm Luke

Jones, again in full maturely, what with it being Easter and everything else, he's

away on holiday and I've had a swell picture of him on Instagram the other day, literally

on the beach with his top off, drinking a drink out of an actual pineapple, so he's having

fun. We're having more fun here, we're going to be discussing this new film, The Valley,

in a moment, an incredible film where they followed Alexi Navalny from after when he was

poisoned to getting better and discovering who from the Russian government actually poisoned

him, so we'll hear from the director of that film and also we'll hear from somebody who

studies how the FSB and the sort of a shadowy areas of the Russian government actually operate

and how that's changing with the Ukrainian War. First of all let's get to our columnists,

James Forsyth and Melanie Reed. Well I want to start with the situation that facing

the Prime Minister, because James, in your column this morning, you're suggesting that

actually at the moment things are somewhat out of his hands. Yeah, because I think essentially

what his future turns on is whether the economy picks up or not, because you know, you

can do things like he did yesterday with the Rwanda announcements and the like, and that

they will shore up his right flank to an extent, but I don't think it's he's politics always

gets very, very scratchy when people will feel that they're getting worse off month after

month, their paycheck gets less and less, and that's what happens with inflation, when

inflation is running above wage increases, and that is the current situation. And I think

if that carries on, I think the danger, the great Tory vulnerability is this idea that

there's one rule for them and one rule for everybody else. And I mean, the danger is

the cost of living crisis could become almost the perfect encapsulation of that. You know,

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