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Hello, I'm Matthew Price.

This is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4, where we ask one big question about one big story.

Today, why is number 10 hiring weirdos?

At the Brits last night, the rapper Dave performed his track black and he put in some new lines and the one that's probably attracted the most attention was this

The truth is our Prime Minister is a real racist the home secretary pretty The Home Secretary Priti Patel was interviewed today, she says there's no way that's true.

I don't know if Dave had been reading about a 20-something called Andrew Seiskey before he wrote those words.

Now until a couple of days ago, Sibiskey briefly had a job at number 10.

We found out today he had actually sat in meetings with Boris Johnson.

Sibiskey was part of a new intake of people. sat in meetings with Boris Johnson.

Sabiski was part of a new intake of people,

deliberately chosen because of their different ways of thinking.

But then journalists found out some of the pretty abhorrent things that he personally had been thinking, like

black people, he said, had lower average IQs than white people, that compulsory contraception could prevent what he called creating

a permanent underclass.

Now on Monday evening, Seabiski resigned from Downing Street, but it started a fierce discussion about

why he was there in the first place, about why the Prime Minister's chief

strategist, a guy called Dominic Cummings, wanted to recruit people like him. People that Cummings

actually referred to as misfits, weirdos who were going to shake up things and

bring new ideas into Downing Street.

So we're going to talk about whether actually that is what's needed.

But first we spoke to one of the journalists who's been following the Andrews

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