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So we are finding out more about the new government and more particularly about the new chancellor.
And I know that we unpleasantly revealed not so long ago that the treasury had boxed in the chancellor's urinal.
We do now know in number eleven, Rachel Reeves has been changing the decor.
Already the picture of Nigel Lawson has come down and a new picture will go up.
And you know that I've been hugely inspired by many women in politics and in economics, like Ellen Wilkinson, Jenny Lee, Alice Bacon, in politics and in economics, women like Jane Robinson or Mary Paley Marshall.
So I haven't made a decision, but a picture will be going up on.
That wall and it will be a woman.
It will be a woman.
Lovely.
I love all this.
I think it's significant style and substance.
Henry, have you been in number eleven?
I have.
I've been in that office that Rachel Ruiz is talking about, and I've seen the portrait of Nigel Lawson, because the last time I was there, Rishi Sunak was chancellor, and he's the one who originally put it up.
So, yes, will be interesting to see who replaces him.
And I'd like to let the chancellor know that I'm very much available for an invitation to discuss what she's doing and to check out the portrait she puts up.
Shameless pitch for another interview with Rachel Reeves only moments after.
It can be a background chat.
I'm not.