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Hello and welcome to a special Saturday edition of Coffey House shots.

I'm joined by Craig Oliver, former director of Combs at 10 Downing Street during the David Cameron era

and Sophia Gaston, head of Foreign Policy at Policy Exchange.

So how is David Cameron's comeback coming along?

He's been in the news for various reasons, but as problems in the Middle East and war on the continent dominate the headlines.

There was a question as to whether the Foreign Secretary's experience is coming in handy.

Sophia just to start, when we look at it, I suppose that I suppose at the past week, the strikes and the released,

David Cameron being front and center in the media round at the weekend, is there a sense that the

fact he has an experience being number 10 is meaning that he has more of an impact now or is it a hindrance?

I think in a deteriorating security environment like we're living in now

and particularly one where we have very constrained resources and so are having to make hard

choices about all of our foreign policy decisions. I think the capacity to hit the ground

running like he's been able to do has been really

invaluable. There weren't that many people who would be able to come into that job

really from day one go straight into meetings with Dai Shankar, Kohl's with Blinking and so on and then obviously

having to be on the ground in Ukraine and then the Middle East and dealing with the situation

in the Red Sea.

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