Christmas is almost here and Parliament closed for business on Tuesday. But there was plenty to chew over this week in the political world. Gordon Brown tried to reclaim his glory years as chancellor when he cast himself as Mr Prudent at his final Downing Street press conference of the year. The Liberal Democrats also have a new leader after Nick Clegg's wafer thin victory over Chris Huhne.
In the last Politics Weekly of 2007 I pick over these events with Greg Clark, the Conservative MP and shadow cabinet office minister, Jenni Russell, the Guardian columnist, and Roger Alton, the editor of the Observer.
We discuss whether Nick Clegg can rejuvenate the Lib Dems after his narrow victory. We also have the Politics Weekly Review of the Year in which we discuss the highs and lows of 2007. Jenni thinks that Tony Blair's final appearance in the Commons in June was the best moment. Roger went for the election in May of Nicolas Sarkozy as French President. Greg, ever the loyal trooper, was impressed by the publication of the Breakthrough Britain report by Iain Duncan Smith. This outlined a series of measures to help Britain's vulnerable people.
And listen out to a roasting I received from my editor Roger. He told me I'm an insufferable European snob after I nominated as my low point 'Barney Cam VI: Holiday in the National Parks', the White House annual Christmas video, in which President Bush's two Scottish terriers are appointed as junior national park rangers.
