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What's Going on With the Prime Minister?

There was a classic Westminster travelling press pack moment on the Eurostar. Journalists gathered around Rishi Sunak to record what he was saying. The way this works is to explain to newscasters, known as a huddle. There's no cameras there, and we're not recording it in order to broadcast extracts of the conversation with the Prime Minister. We can quote verbatim what the Prime Minister says and say that he said it. It becomes quite a detailed interview over half an hour or 40 minutes just conducted by 30 odd different people. And it's a big test actually for a Prime Minister, because imagine that sitting in the middle of all these journalists asking whatever we like on any

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