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Three minutes after 10 is the time. It's a funny one, isn't it? You look at the,

the nature of reportage. And I'm not ordinarily one for, particularly where the BBC is concerned. I think they've got a whole heap of problems. But generally speaking, they do their best in a very bad situation. But you look at the reportage, the nature of the reporting, and it's impossible to avoid at least the suspicion that this so-called prisons crisis, and you'll understand in a moment why I use the phrase so-called, there is a prison's crisis, is not new. It was under the last government that prisons reached breaking point.

We know that 10,000 people were at least earlier than they would ordinarily have been.

And we know that Rishi Sunat was warned during the election campaign.

I'll say that again, during the election campaign, that he would need to do precisely what the government is now doing in order

to avoid an actual overflow. Now, I am conscious that we all in a way suffer from the

footballification of politics. Well, maybe that's not fair. Maybe you don't, actually. But I think I

do. I certainly suffer from it.

I also suffer from a form of benign patriotism, whereby even if a politician who I have enormous problems with ends up in power, I kind of want them to do well for reasons of the national interest.

You'll remember the two and a half hours where I was optimistic about the prospect

of Rishi Sunak turning the oil tanker around before he puts Suella Braverman back in the home

office and we realised that it was grim and dismal business as usual. But I make no apology

for that two and a half hours of optimism. I want the country to get better. And if you look, as we often do on the program during our time together, you look at all the things that we consider to be in dire need of improvement, mostly things that have declined or diminished or gone off a cliff since 2010.

Yesterday we were talking about the NHS, of course.

Patient satisfaction in the NHS was the highest on record in 2010.

And the prison service has similarly suffered during the 14 years of Tory rule.

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