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This is Reasons to Be cheerful with Ed Millivand and Jeff Lloyd.

Hello! Hello! I want to start with a little fanfare. I've got a musical instrument that I've

got down from the shelf here. Hang on. First appearance of the year of your legs. It's so nice

to see it again. Fanfare for the... Common legs. Yeah.

For the common legs I was about to say. Yeah, Ed is donning shorts.

Thank you for the fanfare for my legs. Oh, okay. It's not that I'm at least stunned.

So I know we're reasons to be cheerful, but I mean, is Prime Minister Boris Johnson now in

...