This is LBC from Global, leading Britain's conversation with James O'Brien.

Good morning. Three minutes after at 10 is the time. It's Friday already. It's actually one of these days. I'm going to say that, and it's not going to be. I'm going to sort of get my calendar slightly mixed up.

I'm going to announce the wrong day.

I have on occasion, of course, announced the wrong time on the radio program,

and it could mess up your schedule for moments.

I don't know if you heard my little trail at 1045, 945.

I just did it.

I just got the time wrong already. Honestly, it's like night following day. Talk about tempting fate.

945. It was 945 this morning. You hear the little trail that I do. And I say, in hopefully quite tempting terms, the idea is to encourage you to make sure you carry on listening after Nick's headed home. And I say, even Malcolm Tucker would struggle to find the words to

describe the latest disasters befalling Downing Street. And I finish recording it. And I say to my

producer today, Alex Barnay, I say, everyone knows who Malcolm Tucker is. I know that one's all right.

And I'll tell you, he looks back at me as blank as a face you will ever see in your life.

Never watch the thick of it. No idea who Malcolm Tucker is. And sending my little trail,

presuming that his name is a byword for newly invented swear words to describe political

disasters sailing off over the horizon. So if you don't know who Malcolm Tucker is,

thank you, Nile, who's just texted Cracker Jack,

with an exclamation mark.

You've got to be a regular listener.

If you don't know who Malcolm Tucker is,

he is the character created by Amanda Yonucci,

modelled on, we are told

Alistair Campbell, and the

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