BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. Patty, have you brought me any presents? No, I know you've been to Brighton in your own life enough, more than me, so I've brought you no rock and no seagulls. Do you know what? I'm sad, but actually I'm relieved. You said no, because I haven't brought you a holiday present either. So Brighton, I went to, went to Hoven Brighton, for all the reasons. You had everyone in the world on your sofa.

You can't be. present either. So Brighton, I went to, I went to Hovenbryton, for all the reasons. You had everyone

in the world on your sofa. You've got a bigger sofa. And on our sofa this morning, Joe

Pike, one of the BBC's finest political brains to talk us through, oh, well, this reshuffle

that is it over? Is there a lid on it? Ongoing, I think. Oh, still, we'll get into all of that on this Sunday's newscast. Newscast from the BBC. Fat boy sliver me in the classroom doing our violin lessons. I was the tattle tail in the class. Got I have an apology, please. I trust almost nobody. That daddy has to sometimes do strong language. Next time in Moscow. I feel delulu with no salulu. Take me down to Downey Street. Let's go have a tour. Blimey. Hello, it's Patty in the studio. And it's Laura in the studio. It's Joe Pike also in the studio. Marvelous. So John Healy, the Defence Secretary, was sent out this morning to defend. See what I did there, what Kier Saumer has been up to trying to salvage the embarrassment of Angela Rainer's departure and turn it into a new, lean, mean, new look, improved cabinet.

But, Joe, you've been on the blower talking to people behind the scenes about what they think, and we'll hear a bit of what John Healy said in public too.

I think there are some people who were a little bit baffled, some who survived, who are now in different departments and have to have to start from scratch.

Others slightly hurt by their moves. And there are also people who've left government, Laura, who felt it wasn't great

that the PM didn't call them up to say they were out. The chief whip, Johnny Reynolds,

seemed to be doing a lot of the phone calls alongside Darren Jones. And if you are worried about

the state of your parliamentary party and wanting to keep people loyal and on side, especially if they've worked for you for a year and maybe worked for you in opposition as well and made sacrifice to do that, it does seem that even in a busy weekend, the PMA have seen the sort of positivity and an opportunity of actually making those difficult calls.

So for newscasters just to know normally a prime minister and with a big reshuffle

would sack or hire people in person.

This week it happened on the phone with the big players because it happened on a Friday

and a lot of people were in the constituencies and nobody was expecting it.

But it is to my mind, even when it's junior ministers, it normally would be the PM themselves that did it on the blower. And it was interesting, Paddy, this morning on our show, a lot of the theme we heard from Emily Thornbury and from Andy Burnham, and we might play a bit of that interview later, that part of the problem of the first year has been not listening and not respecting, to use Andy Burnham's words,

not respecting MPs enough, and getting the chief whip to sack people on the blower,

that might not improve matters?

Well, just rounding up the Sunday journalism and journalists, Rachel Sylvester,

political editor of The Observer, said on the radio four today that they'd been using a new electronic whiteboard. This is because famously Tony Blair got the wrong MP with a post-it note

and promoted or sack the wrong person. I can't remember which. So they were using a bit of new

tech. And the live issues in the papers are how much as a package, this is a tilt to the right?

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