I'm John Batchew with Simon Constable in the south of France, and I look to Simon

to help me understand, first of all,

Mr. Starrmer is now the most unpopular Prime Minister ever polled.

There were prime ministers before polling, but we're just reaching into the 20th century.

Secondly, Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, looks to be telling a story of,

you've got to take your medicine, Britain.

Higher taxes, fewer services, and closed public schools.

And thirdly, now there's a debate in the newspapers about whether the king should postpone or suspend his planned visit to the United States

for the 250th anniversary in summertime. Why? Because of the Iran war and the word

embarrassed, might embarrass the crown. Simon, we can deal with bad polling for Mr. Starmer.

We can certainly deal with people being unkind about Rachel Reeves,

so it is her job to do dollars and cents or pounds and pennies.

But the puzzle about the king, how does this strike you? Having lived with the king your

whole life, it's a rarity that Americans have that sense of the monarchy. I don't have it,

and I'm trying to educate myself, because my family originally came as members of Buckinghamshire from England. But how is it with you,

the king? Is there a risk of him being embarrassed or upset by unkind remarks that are being made

by the prime minister now by the president and things that might happen in summertime during his

visit? So one of the great things about having a monarch, whether it's a king or and things that might happen in summertime during his visit.

So one of the great things about having a monarch, whether it's a king or a queen, is that they, in a constitutional monarchy, you have politicians who are elected or they're in the

House of Lords where they're appointed. And they are something different from what the king or the queen does.

At the moment, it's a king.

And the king's job is to go out there and smooth things with other countries.

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