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Hello, I've got so much to share with Chris Mason. I couldn't wait to these back from his

holidays, so I texted him at the Suffolk show and summoned him. Hello! Hello, how was the

show?

I love, I am a sucker for an agricultural show. I absolutely loved it. It's just great

that the tractors and the combine harvesters and the sheep and the cows and all that. And

there was this brilliant demonstration of P. Harvesting delivered with such enthusiasm. It

reminded me of, like, God, do you remember Peter O'Sullivan, the rate horse commentator

for my youth? He used to commentate at sort of a million miles an hour and then it would

be a trillion miles an hour by the finish line. And it was like that level of enthusiasm and

passion about P. Harvesting and I absolutely loved it.

Oh, so anyway, I wanted to just alert you. So the Boris Johnson COVID WhatsApp's inquiry

saga has taken on another turn. And you've had no phone signals, so you probably don't

know about it. But Boris Johnson has said that he's handed over all his WhatsApp to the

Cabinet Office, the government department, to hand over to the COVID inquiry. This is

ahead of the deadline on Thursday for the government to hand over all their material

or face legal action. So I suppose that's kind of one kind of hurdle clear to the inquiry,

isn't it?

Yeah, it is. And what we're going to get, I think, we're going to get this over and over

again, as long as this inquiry goes on, is people trying to protect the reputations, others

trying to hold them to account. And then through all of that, trying to get to some sort

of sense of truth, you know, that's that's effectively what all of this is going to boil

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