Good morning and welcome to morning, Joe.

Happy Friday.

It is 6 a.m.

On Friday, December 17th, I'm going to start Christmas shopping about a week from now.

It's usually that it goes with me.

With us, we have MSNBC contributor and bestselling author.

Katie Kaye.

A long time ago that that was already done in the summer.

Of course, yes, yes.

You're exactly right.

I don't let the summer go past without it. We also have David Ignatius, who begins his work, Christmas work in the summer as well. White House correspondent for Politico and co-author of the playbook Eugene Daniels and congressional correspondent for the Washington Post. Jackie Alamani, Mika and Willie, both have the morning

off. They're on assignment. I'm just going to say that for them because, like, when I'm off,

they say, I'm on assignment. Maybe, maybe, Caddy, who knows, maybe, you know, maybe I'm sleeping in late. Maybe I'm in Yugoslavia, if there were

a Yugoslavia. I don't know. Still, but Caddy, I was reading the post and I saw, and because we're

a little disconnected from Boris Johnson. I mean, in America, we hear, oh, there's a scandal.

Boris Johnson's having a scandal. That's like saying Nick Saban wins football games. He's always

in the middle of the scandal. And Brits don't care. But I read this morning that, and this is

kind of a bad sign, that conservatives lost a seat that they had held for 200 years. That's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, first all, first of all, tell us about that seat and also, I mean, how bad are things for Boris Johnson right now? Well, I'm very glad that this morning, Joe, I can be your North Shropshire correspondent

because I haven't had that opportunity often enough on the program, I feel.

Sometimes we do the world, but we don't often do North Shropshire, which is kind of west of

London, about three hours from London.

It's a seat that the Conservatives have held, as you say, for centuries.

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