Introduction

This is the b b c. podcast, a series of conversations with people who shape our political thinking about what shaps their life stories and values. This week we have not just a new prime minister, but new faces in every one of the jobs at the top of listross's government. We also feature interviews from three old ones: coffee, chancellor and foreign secretary. They are talking to me months, sometimes years ago, long before they had any idea of the dramas we'd witnessed this week.