Good morning. It's three minutes after ten. How are you? I thought I was being so funny yesterday when I

opened the program by doing the whole deep breath. How are you? Gag based on Holly Willoughby's

opening on this morning the previous day, but everyone did it. Ian Heslop did it last night at the

Balford Awards. The annual Private Eye Award for exceptional journalism, investigative journalism,

an astonishingly strong field.

Congratulations to David Con of The Guardian for picking up the prize for his coverage of VIP lanes and PPE contracts.

And a story that certainly hasn't gone away.

Very generous of him, actually, to credit Jolly and Maugh.

And the Good Law Project for starting that particular ball rolling,

they take a lot of jip, don't they, from the usual suspects over at the Good Law Project.

And it's not hard to see why when you remember their role in starting the sort of roller coaster of revelations

regarding those astonishing contracts. More of it in the news today. roller coaster of revelations regarding those astonishing contracts,

more of it in the news today.

The sums of money that David mentioned in his acceptance speech is so easy to forget.

A company set up almost from scratch, suddenly securing hundreds, hundreds, seven,

hundred million.

How many?

Is that nine figures?

Nine figure.

Nine figure contracts from the government of which astonishing proportions, astonishing percentages made their way into family accounts. The National Crime Agency looking into it. It'd be nice of them to hurry up a bit. Four minutes after ten is the time. Speaking of right wing newspapers, remarkable this morning that there is more coverage of some research by a former advisor to michael gove miraculously uh finding

that the labor parties plans with regard to putting vat on private education may be flawed i'll say

that again because you may not know a former advisor advisor to Michael Gove who now runs a think tank

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