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Chris, tell me how you ended up in Scotland for longer than you expected to be when you were covering the Prime Minister's Defence announcement.

Well, so we'd covered the announcement and we hatched a plan because it's kind of small our romantic, I think, that we would get the, that's the Caledonian sleeper.

Because, you know, it leaves not long after the 10 o'clock news,

and I'd be back at Westminster at 9 o'clock in the morning.

I mean, that's just tremendous.

I'd be well rested.

I'd be wearing yesterday's shirt, but, you know, you can't have everything.

So we get on the, we get on the train,

and we go for a little drink. And then Jack Slater and I, Jack's a brilliant camera journalist.

So we go to our bunks.

And producer Isabella's got her own compartment down the corridor.

And we get a bed.

And I fall asleep.

And I kind of, you know, when you sort of half asleep and you sort of thinking,

and this thought sort of flicked across my mind at some time in the dead of night, I thought,

it just feels a bit smoother than when I was last on this, but they have improved the rolling stop.

It was all fine.

Then, five o'clock in the morning, guys, get up, get up, we're kicking you off.

We're still in Glasgow.

Oh, you hadn't gone anywhere.

We had not gone anywhere.

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