They're trying to win this debate by saying it's really not that bad, whereas the logical

politics of this is to say it is bad and we're on it.

Hi, it's Lucy Fisher here with Political Fix, the FT's Insider Guide to Westminster.

You heard that the FT's Robert Trimsley, talking about the government's handling of the

crumbly concrete crisis that's now been set more than 100 schools.

And Robert's here with me in the studio. Hi, Robert.

Hey, Lucy.

Also here is the FT's Stephen Bush. Hi, Stephen.

Hey, Lucy.

So we'll get into the details of the bubbly concrete crisis in a moment, as well as the

effect of bankruptcy this week of the UK's biggest local authority.

But let's kick off with what I thought was the most interesting story this week in

the longer term, which was the Labour reshuffle.

And Robert, I thought it was a pretty bold shake-up from Starmer.

He brought back people like Hillary Ben, probably a bit overdue.

There were promotions for talented individuals like Peter Kyle and Shabbana Mahmoud.

And it really made me think it does actually look now like a Labour leader preparing for government.

Well, that's good because that's what he would like you to think and everybody else to think.

Yes, I think that although there were quite a lot of headlines about, you know,

the return of Blair writes and this kind of thing, which has a certain truth to it,

I think the two things that struck me about it were three things.

Number one is, as you say, it looked like a shadow cabinet being formed with it,

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