Hello and welcome to The Rundown, a podcast from Politics Home.

I'm your host, Alan Tollast, and we need to look ahead to a busy autumn politics after a tricky week back in Parliament for Issue Sunaq.

It's the former minister and Tory MP for Boston Skegness, Matt Warman, as well as my poll home colleague, Caitlin Doherty.

So, as I said, we have a very busy few weeks ahead. It's two weeks until party conference season gets underway.

The Chancellor has set the date for the all-important autumn statement. The King's speech is two months from today.

And the government has an awful lot of legislation to get past before then,

plus we now have three by-elections to get stuck into. But this first week back in the

Commons after summer recess has been over over rack, concrete, in schools and now other public

buildings. So, Matt, what have you made of it all so far? Well, it's been obviously a frustrating

week in some ways to come back to. No one would have wanted it to be dominated by the stuff about RAC, of course. But ultimately it's a really serious issue. And it's right that the government has, I think, tried to provide the maximum amount of reassurance. It can and talked about it being sort of 150 odd schools out of 22,000 that we know that relatively

most of those are only affecting a pretty minor way, all of that stuff. So it feels like we were

thrown back into business as usual very quickly, but obviously, as you just said, there is lots of

stuff coming up on the horizon that is going to be hugely important

in what is sort of a period that gets closer and closer to being focused on the upcoming

general election anyway. Yeah, we'll obviously get onto kind of messaging and whether number

10's been getting that stuff right. Do you kind of fear that these kind of issues help, you know,

overshadow a lot of that kind of stuff. it's difficult to for number 10 and the government to get

their messaging out when you've got these suddenly out of nowhere massive row about you know all public

buildings potentially being involved in this kind of dangerous concrete and stuff so i think every

government and you can sort of trace it obviously back to the sort of alister campbell era but even

before that every government has always sort of wished that the press would talk about what it

wants to talk about and in reality events do actually intervene and when i when i was a journalist i very much enjoyed them intervening maybe less so now but look the the point is that government doesn't control every aspect of the news gender and nor should it it's it's our job government's job, to try and make sure that the messaging

...