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Hello, welcome to the second episode of newscast that we've recorded on Monday after our little bonus Oscars special, my little passion project.

Chris, did you stay up all night for the Oscars? I'm guessing, no.

I didn't, but I had my moment of drama at about half past six this morning, Adam.

When I woke up, obviously keen to hear what I've been happening in Los Angeles,

even though, as you know, I'm not a great film buff.

And I flick on the radio, and I open up my phone.

And there's an email from Reform UK at 601 a.m.

saying, we're doing a news conference at half 10 in in Westminster and I thought hello

what might this be about so that was my that was my moments of Jeopardy waking up and

seeing who'd won a political gong rather than a statuette in you know West Coast

America here is my theory of today so you were then at that event at 1030, which is where Reform

UK announced that Lee Anderson, who'd recently lost the Conservative whip, was defecting to their

party, making it their first MP in Parliament. Just an hour later, I was at the Institute for

Government Think Tank where they were releasing a big report about how you could reform Number 10 Downing Street and Whitehall and the Treasury to make it work better for the country.

And this report was introduced by Sir John Major and Gordon Brown and was watched by loads of

former senior civil servants and the great and the good.

And for me, that was just a perfect encapsulation of what's happening here with politics. You had you with the kind of the insurgents saying, we need

radical change, people are angry, we're going to shape things up. And then there was me sat watching,

well, basically the establishment saying, here are some changes we could make. And for me,

it was just almost like Christopher Nolan had directed British politics for the day. There you are.

You've tied these things together beautifully.

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