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My guess this week reminds me of this.

A hand grenade going off.

Who pulled the pin?

I thought at the time if anybody thinks that's going to stop me saying

whatever it is I've got to say they misjudge me.

Hello and welcome to Political Thinking.

Draw a list of some of the toughest policy nuts that any government needs to crack.

And you'd probably put pretty near the top of it rough sleeping.

You might add anti-social behaviour, troubled families.

Maybe you'd add child sexual exploitation.

Victims rights too.

Lost. Certainly not least the culture and the standards of the police.

That list is a short summary of the jobs done by my guest this week on Political Thinking.

She's done those jobs for five different Prime Ministers of both main political parties

over the last quarter of the century or so.

Baroness Casey of Blackstock, Dame Louise Casey, one of the most influential non-politicians in politics today.

Louise Casey, thanks for joining me on Political Thinking.

Thank you very much Nick. It's delightful to be here.

And I read out that list of jobs you've done for Prime Ministers from Tony Blair to Rishi Sudak.

I felt like humming the tune of Ghostbusters.

Who are you going to call? Louise Casey.

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