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Hope you had a good weekend.
Keir Starmer has done that classic thing prime ministers do when they go and sit on the this morning sofa.
They reveal things about their life in a way that afterwards you can sort of imagine them thinking, oh, why should I say that?
So, first of all, we learned that he did an escape room on Sunday for his daughter's birthday.
Insert your own metaphor there.
And we also heard his go to meal.
It's the one the kids make me do over and over again.
It's a pasta bake where you do layers of sort of handmade sauce, then different cheeses, and you layer it up with a sauce on top, which I wouldn't say is necessarily the best dish.
Is it lasagna?
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Layers of pasta with a cream sauce.