So Theresa May's had a pretty good week this week until she wakes up on Sunday morning and finds that Alan Milburn, the social mobility commissioner, and in fact the whole of the rest of the commission, have not just resigned, but resigned with Alan Milburn all over the newspapers and the TV this morning,

saying how disappointed he is, that whilst Theresa May can talk the talk on social mobility,

and in fact, I thought her speech on the steps of Downing Street when she first became

Prime Minister was pretty strong and good on that, while she can talk the talk, she can't walk the walk.

And that's pretty condemnatory of the government, isn't it?

How do you think she'll be feeling about that, Ian?

Well, it is.

But I suppose that's what happens when you appoint ex-Labour ministers to head commissions.

I'm being slightly facetious, because I do think it is quite damaging what he said.

He's timed it for

maximum impact gave the exclusive to the observer has been on the Andrew Marshow and goodness knows

where else but you you can't just put this down to a sort of embittered ex-labour person

Julian Shepard has resigned she's not somebody who anybody could accuse of having a

political agenda. So I think Theresa May, it's really weird, isn't it? Just when she's having a

good week, just when she seems to have recovered her mojo, got a bit of confidence back,

something like this happens. And of course, she's got to go to Brussels tomorrow or today,

if you're listening to this on Monday, to meet Jean-Claude Juncker.

So it is, and then she's got the Damien Green affair,

which we'll talk about a little bit later, hanging over her.

So it's a pretty difficult time for Theresa May.

Now, in terms of the subject matter on social mobility,

I wonder whether we're getting to the point where Alan Milburn's assertion that, well,

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