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Speaker 1: Hello. I'm Michelle Hussein and for more than twenty years

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Speaker 1: I was at the BBC presiding over political debates. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the BBC Prime Ministerial Debate, covering international news now

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Speaker 1: so that the United States has completed its military withdrawal

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Speaker 1: from Afghanistan twenty years and reporting on some pretty famous people.

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Speaker 1: Youural Highness Megan Markel, congratulations to both. Thank you. It

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Speaker 1: was thrilling to be in the front row to watch

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Speaker 1: history unfold, even if I did have to get up

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Speaker 1: at three am most mornings. But all the time I

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Speaker 1: was delivering the headlines, I wanted to go further than

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Speaker 1: the news of the day. I wanted to talk about

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Speaker 1: the ideas behind it, to spend more time with the

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Speaker 1: people shaping our world. And that's what I'm doing here

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Speaker 1: on this podcast from Bloomberg Weekend. I speak with people like,

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Speaker 1: in terms of political spending, I'm going to do a

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Speaker 1: lot less in the future, and why is that? I

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Speaker 1: think I've done enough? Prime Minister Keir Starmer recognizing of

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Speaker 1: Palestinian state was in your manifesto. Do you want to

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Speaker 1: be the British Prime Minister who delivers that? I'm clear

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Speaker 1: and our manifesto was clear about our position on recognition

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Speaker 1: cultural figures like Succession creator Jesse Armstrong. You are writing

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Speaker 1: about that world of the super rich again, and there's

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Speaker 1: a sorry. Well I wondered why I believe I'm doing

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Speaker 1: it because I'm interested in the power, not the money

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Speaker 1: and shonder rhymes. How did you feel about Bridgerton being

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Speaker 1: described as woke? I didn't know anybody described it as woke.

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Speaker 1: The Telegraph called it pandering to woke casting. Well, that's

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Speaker 1: not cute. This is going to be a place where

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Speaker 1: every weekend you'll hear one essential conversation. But I hope

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Speaker 1: that it's also going to be a place with head,

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Speaker 1: heart and soul personal conversational. Yeah, exactly. You might even

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Speaker 1: enjoy it, So please join me. Listen and subscribe to

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Speaker 1: The Michelle Hussein Show from Bloomberg Weekend wherever you get

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Speaker 1: your podcasts, new episodes every Friday morning. You certainly ask

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Speaker 1: interesting questions.