I'm in Norfolk, by the way, although, obviously, thanks to the best efforts of the highways agencies to prevent me getting here, as usual, having shut off the A-11, a gain.

Hello.

Well, life wouldn't be complete without a Highways Agency story, would it?

Now, we are sounding incredibly cheerful, aren't we? And we will make... Because we're still

alive and we've still got most of our limbs. And we might come on to that subject a little later.

That's a tease, ladies and gentlemen, because we don't want to give you all the good stuff right at the

beginning. But I do... I don't know if you've seen this from Politico London playbook.

Have you, have you ever had to sack anyone?

Yes.

You either have or you haven't. It's not one of those things, well I half sacked somebody.

It wasn't quite, yeah, it wasn't quite a sacking because I didn't quite employ them but yeah, go on.

Well, have you heard of Cleo Watson? She was Dominic Cummings as number two at number 10.

Oh, is she the one that's writing her story all over the place today? Yeah, she's written a piece for

the Tatler and And she says,

my role at number 10 sounds fancy, but a lot of the time I was much closer to being Boris's

nanny. She describes how the PM feigned bending over while having his temperature taken during

the pandemic, skulked into adjoining rooms and looked over staff's shoulders, despite having

been ordered by the NHS app to isolate. And then he sacked her in November 2020 by saying

this, I can't look at you anymore, because it reminds me of Dom. It's like a marriage has ended.

We've divided up our things,

and I've kept an ugly old lamp.

But every time I look at that lamp,

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