Hello, I'm Hugo Rifkind, and now we're going to be unpacking the politics of the day

from the question of who owns Britain to the nation's favourite hymns.

And joining me now are two people who make all things bright and beautiful,

and they are Libby Purvis. Hello, Libby.

Hello.

Laughing and disgust there.

And Patrick Kidd, hello, Patrick.

That was an amazing segue you came up with.

Well done.

All things bright and beautiful.

For those who don't know, is a hymn reference.

We'll be talking about hymns lately.

And I can see a production team cheering in the background.

The success of that small joke.

We've got an awful lot to cover and not a huge amount of times.

Let's crack on very fast.

I want to talk first up about China.

The government's decision to step in and take over the running of one of the country's last virgin steel manufacturing plant in Scumthorpe has prompted a deeper look at UK-China

relations and how much Chinese investment

there is in some of our more important industries and indeed what power they may have over us

in technological and financial ways. It's emerged today that Ed Miliband has promised even close to

times to China on a recent visit as part of delivering net zero. The Minister for Industry, Sarah Jones told Times Radio this morning that working with

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