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Uh, Sophie Grove, uh, back in London, wanna bring you into the mix.

Uh, we'll talk about, of course, uh, Confect a little bit, uh, further along.

No, just give us, uh, the, the view from, uh, London today.

Uh, We'll have our, what, ninth prime minister, uh, [laughs] of course, uh, paying a visit to, to the palace, uh, and getting underway from, from tomorrow.

This seems to be what the dominating, the news in the UK.

Not, not entirely, of course, there's, uh, there was a, a, a third place, uh, World Cup win, UK, uh, or Team England getting bronze, of course, last night against France.

Uh, 10 goals scored, uh, almost something of a record in, in contemporary, uh, World Cup matches.

Uh, but, uh, what are you seeing in the papers this morning?

Well, there's a lot of attention given to Andy Burnham, who's known as King of the North, and he's, um, gonna be stepping into number 10 tomorrow.

Um, it's quite interesting because, I mean, nobody really knows what he's been up to.

He's been Mayor of Greater Manchester, um, for, for the past few years, and he apparently has reinstated the bus network and, um, sort of created this lovely kind of sort of fleet of yellow buses, which people were talking about quite a lot at the party I was at last night [laughs].

That's all we really know about him 'cause he's been sort of, um, you know, out doing his own thing and not really in Westminster for a while.

So it's quite interesting to have this, this kind of unknown entity, um, coming in, in, into, into government.

You know, what does he mean for international politics, for Ukraine, for, you know, macroeconomic issues? Um, you, and, uh, it's interesting, the, um, the Observer has a front page of, of him as, as an illustration of, as Odysseus, you know, echoing the Christopher Nolan, um, new film, sort of this kind of pioneer.

Um, and it, and, and a very optimistic, in fact, review from The Observer on, you know, his plan, which apparently he, he does have one.

We haven't heard much of the detail.

So I think there's very much tenterhooks.

He's the talk of the town, he's the talk of every party.

Um, and, you know, I just hope that he can really sort of sell some of the policies.

And he's really a communicator.

I think people are, are getting just so happy that he might be able to kind of get some of the messages across and, um, really win the public for the next election if, if anything.

Well, this is it.

I think that, uh, if he can just somehow fire up whoever's in front of him, uh, that would be a, a bit of a step change, of course, uh, from, from Keir Starmer, uh, as, as well.

Uh, Sophie, just, uh, [laughs] when, when we look at sort of the, the whole, you know, Andy Burnham story, and of course, you know, is it going to...

And we're gonna, we need to bring Emma in, uh, as well because I, I wouldn't say she's sort of our, um, northern correspondent part in residence, but Em- Emma's gonna have [laughs] a view on Andy Burnham, uh, as, as well.