Three minutes after 10 is the time. A very good morning to you. It is an odd news agenda at the moment.

There's a lot of stuff about to happen that hasn't actually happened. The most serious of which would be a potential cessation of hostilities in Gaza, although that would be temporary.

The autumn budget statement, whatever you call it, statement budget, statement, autumn,

budget statement autumn is due to unfold on Wednesday. But of course, there is a lot of

speculation surrounding what is likely to be in it. And there are some legal cases being brought

against rugby and massive tech companies. I'm interested in both of those.

I like the look of that Ofsted story that you just heard referred to in the news. If you are a

teacher or you know any, alert them that will probably be turning our attention to the question

of whether or not Offsted is fit for purpose a little later in the programme, and the COVID inquiry

continues with evidence, I think, this morning or certainly today, from Sir Patrick Valence,

the former chief scientific advisor to the government whose private diaries have already revealed

that he held Boris Johnson, if was such a thing possible, even lower regard than we do.

And speaking of Boris Johnson, or indeed the Conservative Party, there's also a story I rather

like about the, well, perhaps the return of the grown-ups, or at least the sensible people.

If you are, as I was, surprised to learn that there are still some

people in the parliamentary Conservative Party who consider themselves sensible or one-nation

Tories. They are, for the first time in what feels like an age, they are flexing their muscles

a little and submitting polite policy requests to Rishi Sunak. It does sort of make you wonder how any party can

have both, for example, David Cameron and Lee Anderson under the same umbrella. I think there's

an existential threat to the Tory party that we would and should be talking about. I haven't

quite found the right way into it yet.

But I begin with a story that perhaps cuts to the heart of that question of what conservatism is

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