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I guess you could say time flies when you're having fun, no?

It's a bit like if fun was an Aldi knock-off, like time flies when you're having enjoyment. Time flies when you're having food. That's the UK. Anyway, did you think we'd be sitting here with a new government?

Which is better or worse?

And I'm Coco Karn. And today we're looking back on the year that was. Pod Save the UK wrapped, if you will.

Joining us now to recap this wild year is Sky News' Liz Bates and comedian Desiree Burge.

Hi. Welcome, welcome. Thank you for having us.

How's it? This is like a form of therapy, isn't it? You know, you blacked out parts of it and we're here in a friendly way to remind you. It's like exposure therapy.

And you are forced to wear them. So please choose one, whichever you would like. I'll take this modest one.

Do you want to explain this turn of conversation this or shall I?

I'm proud of myself. I feel like I'm hanging out with people that are a couple of years above me in school because you're all like, Christmas decorations, lame. Let's make porn jokes. And I'm like,

Back to politics. Desiree, you had two elections this year. Yeah, sadly.

So let's cast our eyes back to the start of the year. On the 4th of January, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, then Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, should I say? Enjoyed it. I'm having a great time. He declared that it was his working assumption that the election would happen in the second half of the year. It turned out he did keep his word, but only just.

So, Liz, if there was one policy that defined the end of 14 years of Conservative rule, it's got to be this one, right? Rwanda, the Rwanda plan. Callous, incompetent, cost the UK an estimated £700 million. What do you think? Does it summarise the end of the Tories?

We should probably just tell the listeners the clip that we just played. Liz Truss comes across as being, I'm just going to say it's slightly inebriated. I'm not saying she is. Maybe that's just her giddy personality.

But she's on camera and she says, oh, look, this is my new book. She holds it up. It's back to front. Then she flips it around, but it's upside down. There's just a little bit of sort of slapstick there.