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Londoner’s Diary: My daughter says she likes my book… but maybe she’s just being nice, says Charlie Brooks

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Welcome to today’s Londoner’s Diary live blog. First up we chat to Charlie Brooks who is releasing his first children’s book this week just to prove he could do it to his nine-year-old daughter. Later on Sir Tom Jones laments Elvis’s weight gain and Jenna Coleman talks about her role in the new TV drama, The War Rooms. In SW1A Steve Barclay reveals his profoundly underwhelming proudest moment as a politician and the former head of the Government’s legal service despairs at the latest Johnson scandal.

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