Good morning. It's three minutes after 10, and you are listening to James O'Brien on LBC, where we will, in a moment, dive back into the Diane Abbott story for reasons that I will explain to you shortly.

Not least, it just gets the old grey cells whirring at a rate of cogs if you let it. I'd like to know. I don't currently have plans to talk about the

situation in Sudan. Just because I've got nothing really to add to what you already know,

the race against time. To save 4,000 British people there, the sadly predictable failure, really, of the foreign office,

I'm afraid, to step up to the plate, James Cleverly carrying the can for that one.

There was a particularly poignant headline in the daily telegraph of all places.

I don't know if you saw it, but I shall bring it to your attention first.

Very simply states, Britons, saved from Sudan by Germany and France.

This is France and Germany rescuing British nationals trapped in Sudan

amid criticism that the government has been slow to help citizens left behind.

There has been movement this morning. There are announcements from the

foreign office that planes are being deployed. But certainly overnight, France confirmed

that it had rescued a significant number of people from other European countries, including

the UK. Germany also saying that it had ferried home Britons.

There'll still be plenty of people stuck there, and it's still obviously a nightmare.

So what I thought I would do alongside the other conversations we're going to have on the program today,

is just ask if you've got family there.

I mean, most obviously Sudanese family, but if you've got expats or immigrants in your family

who are living in Sudan at the moment, I sometimes think the only way we can add to what you're

hearing in the bulletins or what you're hearing from foreign correspondence or people on the ground

is the personal connection, the family connection.

So I will periodically remind you in the course of the program this morning that if you've got family in Sudan,

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