Good morning. It's three minutes after 10. I hope you're well today. I hope the weather is agreeing with you.

Don't forget to put a little cream on if you are heading out into the sunshine later.

I suspect Julian Keegan wishes she stayed at home yesterday, never mind running the risk of sunburn.

The politicians of the government returned to work after the summer hiatus after the summer break

and within hours you had a former chief whip being found guilty of bullying another chief whip

and then you had a secretary of state for education i mean disgracing herself in a remarkable way, in a way that

is quite rightly leading some of the coverage, but of course it underpins, or it is underpinned

by the fact that they chose the weekend before the schools reopened to reveal that potentially

hundreds of schools are in a perilous condition as a consequence of

so-called rack or aerated concrete. I think a quick nod to Ed early doors this morning for

texting to ask whether the phrase falling apart like a cheap suit should be replaced by

falling apart like a cheap school. And here's the problem, right,

before we get stuck into Gillian Keegan,

here's the problem.

And I think it might be quite a big problem.

And I think it's possible I already owe you an apology

for that slightly flippant talk-up

that I did before the news.

Technical term talk-up.

This is my job, right that means that I approach initially until either you tell me off or I

wise up to myself I approach initially this story as a political conversation, right? And therefore it becomes all about

optics and how it reaches the public. Like you, perhaps, I found myself thinking of Gordon Brown

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