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On today's podcast:
(1) The combined death toll from the conflict between Israel and Hamas is now over 2,000.

(2) Israel's military said it's building a base for thousands of soldiers in preparation for the next phase of its retaliation.

(3) Keir Starmer channeled the record and spirit of Blair in his pitch to be Britain's next leader.

(4) The Fed's Mary Daly says rates won't stay as high as they are now indefinitely. 

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Boris Johnson's long-awaited resignation honours list has been published. It means some of his closest aides throughout the partygate scandal will sit in the House of Lords for life, and his list also honours former cabinet ministers Jacob Rees-Mogg and Priti Patel.

Just minutes before the list came out, Nadine Dorries - the former culture secretary and a close ally of Boris Johnson - quit as an MP with immediate effect, triggering a by-election in her Mid-Bedfordshire seat, hours after she said on TV that she didn't want that...

And the Labour party are also causing a stir after watering down their flagship pledge to spend £28 billion a year on green technology.

The policy was supposed to power Britain’s next industrial revolution. But now Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves has rowed back the plans - blaming the Conservative party for “crashing the economy”. Lewis asks what it means for Labour, as they aim for election victory.