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Four minutes after at 10 is the time. Did you know? I obviously have no way of knowing how long you've listened to this program or indeed how closely you have listened to it during whatever period of time it is that you've been listening to it.

But did you know that talking about Brexit changed my life in really quite extraordinary

ways, pootling along in the in the slow lane of speech radio until, I don't know, about

2013, 2014, and then a slow acceleration to the point where in the immediate aftermath of the

referendum result,

this program sort of exploded and continued to explode to the point last week where we became

the most listened to radio program, speech radio program, in the history of commercial radio in

the United Kingdom. I know I can sometimes be a little bit boastful, and I know that it can be a little bit irritating. But I just want you to be part of that. And Brexit, oddly, it just occurred to me literally the moment the light came on, as I looked at a front page of the Daily Mail with the word Brexit and betrayal on it. It just struck me that that was an extraordinary

interaction. It was an extraordinary alignment of various planets. So there were so few places it felt

in the UK media that were telling you the truth about what the country had just voted for,

that we assumed and achieved a sort of status and profile that was

previously unthinkable, to be honest with you. And we're still at it. It's still going.

And that's an odd thing, because I don't feel this morning a great sense of excitement and

celebration that Brexit is set to dominate elements of political discourse in this country for the coming weeks.

And it may only be weeks.

I don't necessarily, and I may change my mind by 11 o'clock.

I may change my mind by 10 past 10, to be honest with you.

But I don't currently feel, yes, finally, we're back having the conversation that needs to be had.

And I think the reason I feel that way is because I don't know whether or not it's time to have this conversation.

Can I highlight something to you that has probably already occurred to you,

but just in case it hasn't, I'm going to ask you a really simple question about the shenanigans now

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