Good morning, Ian. Well, this podcast marks the start of an exciting week. Have you been lurking around in any cloak rooms learning about the tactics that are likely to be used by MPs in the coming week?

I tend not to lurk if I can avoid it, but it goes with the territory a bit, doesn't it?

What you mean is, have I been gossiping with anybody?

Well, no, this references.

I mean, you know, Chief Whips have to move quietly and around the House of Commons in order to

pick up the gossip.

And it seems clear from the papers this morning that Julian Smith, the Tory Chief Whip,

overheard in the member's cloakroom, that isn't the toilet, by the way,

that is actually the place where they hang their coats,

that there was a plot afoot by backbench MPs,

which could, if it succeeds, have a pretty

fundamental impact on the relationship between government and Parliament. But let us get into

that in a bit more detail as we explore what's happened last week and what's going to happen

next week. Well, let's just outline what we're going to do in the rest of the podcast. We are

obviously going to concentrate on Brexit. of the podcast. We are obviously going to

concentrate on Brexit. Interestingly, we've had more questions submitted on Twitter this week

than any other week on the podcast before. That's probably because we've got double the audience

that we started off with. He says preening himself and you. Can you preen somebody else?

Feel free to preen me.

No, we'll leave that to hashtag Moredown a bit later, shall we?

We're going to be talking about the spat between Andrew Neal and Owen Jones on this week.

Fiona Bruce's debut on Question Time.

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