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We've got, we've got to house this one first, I think, soccer mama.

That's good name.

My question is, why should I bother asking as you'll never read it, let alone answer it, that is all.

So there you go, soccer mama, we've read it.

But I have noticed that if you put at the beginning of the question, I've asked the seven times, Alistair's more likely to ask your question.

I might also sometimes suggest if your question also involves, do you think the Tories are the most hopeless government that have ever been seen in world history?

You're probably quite likely to get your question asked.

I think we do it a little bit more subtly than that, a little bit more subtly.

So on the Perseverance points, Jane Wilkinson, I realize I need to ask at least 10 times to win a Perseverance award.

So for the fourth time and counting, please respond properly to the year 12th question, which you chose to read out about medical school places.

Mark Richardson, will you please answer the question you had weeks ago from a 17-year-old asking why finding training places to be a doctor

is so difficult. You promised to research it, so please can we have an answer to an excellent question.

So I have done a bit of research and let's start off by saying something that is unspeakable in the current populist post truth politics that we have, it's very complicated.

Oh good, I'm glad. We didn't often say that.

Well, it is complicated.

So I'm going to try and go through some of the complications.

The first thing is, it's the general medical council, rather than the government, which determines which institutions are allowed to offer medical degrees.

They are looking to extend it so that they can grow the number of places.

The next thing is that there does seem culturally to have been a bit of a sort of BMA leverage point about protecting the quote special profession.

Because I think it's now agreed that there is a workforce crisis, that is no longer holding.

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