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Yeah.

I mean, the Conservative Party is basically unrecognisable today.

And I think Christie's engagement with party politics, this is certainly her most party political book.

But I think her engagement with party politics must be reframed.

You know, it's really easy, isn't it, to take your current, well, certainly my, like, fury, frankly, with some of the things that the Conservative Party have perpetrated since Christie's death into the reading experience of The Rose and the Yew Tree.

But that's not fair because that's not the world she's talking about.

No.

And we literally see this history play out in the book, right?

So it's a bit of a spoiler.

Sorry, just getting to the end.

But I'm quoting from the book.

It's a terrific sweep to the left all over the country.

Labour's in everywhere.

Ours, meaning the catchment of the book, will be one of the few conservative gains, which is what...

our antagonist John Gabriel had predicted earlier in the book.

I mean, that's exactly what history tells us.

What I quite like is Christie almost... Because St.

Lou, where the book is set, is an anomaly for having voted Conservative when there is this Labour sweep.

But it's almost like the tide of history is so powerful that it ends up course-correcting even St.

Lou to Conservative by the end of the book, doesn't it?