Why has Rishi Sunak turned to Gordon Brown for advice?

On the second episode of The i Podcast, we are joined by our lobby team to discuss the unlikely relationship between new PM Rishi Sunak and elder statesman Gordon Brown, and why they have more in common than you might think. i's Political Editor Hugo Gye and Deputy Political Editor Arj Singh have uncovered details about Rishi Sunak's relationship with the former Labour PM and what it tells us about the new Government and its attempts to steer the UK through the economic crisis.We then head over to the streets of Colchester where i's People Writer Eleanor Peake has lifted the lid on the schism in the world of "gimps" and why one man in Essex is angry at the so-called "Somerset gimp" for giving them all a bad name.Rishi Sunak’s unlikely friendship with Gordon Brown revealedhttps://inews.co.uk/news/politics/rishi-sunak-friends-gordon-brown-tories-gone-new-labour-help-1981867The Essex Gimp: ‘The Somerset Gimp is giving gimps a bad name’https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/gimp-man-essex-somerset-community-1975853Produced by Julia Webster. The Executive Producer is Albert Evans.Music featured is by Michael Kobrin and Lexin Music - licensed via Pixabay. Check out their music here.https://pixabay.com/music/modern-classical-the-introvert-michael-kobrin-10959/https://pixabay.com/users/lexin_music-28841948/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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