Well, stand by for our 10th visit to the ballot box in five years.

That's three general elections, two Europeans, two locals, two assemblies,

and one pretty significant EU referendum.

And if you live in West Tyrone, you got a bonus ball in 2018 when Barry Michael Duff resigned.

And now we have another date for the diary Thursday, December the 12th.

Welcome to episode nine of Red Lines.

We'll hear from the BBC's Scotland editor Sarah Smith very shortly and from our political correspondent, Enda Maclaffordy.

But first, Mark, Devonport, our political editor, is in Westminster.

Afternoon, Mark.

Afternoon.

Now, you and your colleagues have been over and back to London for what, two and a half years now to report on that, once in a generation situation where Northern Ireland politicians

hold the balance of power, and who knows what the situation might be on December the 13th, it might

continue, it might not. What's it been like to have had that ringside seat during such a remarkable

time? It's fascinating. I mean, obviously, on the one hand, I'm the political editor who doesn't have

an assembly to report on, so you'd think that life was pretty quiet, and occasionally it is

when you wonder around the empty corridors at Stormont. But on the other hand, we have been

absolutely central, as you were saying, to the politics at Westminster.

And it's been going on for a long, long time.

And, I mean, rather tragically, today, we see the inquiry report into the Grenfell fire.

I was over in London at the time of the Grenfell Blaze reporting on discussions between Theresa May and the DUP leadership

as to whether they would actually come up with their confidence and supply deal. That was topping

the news and then inevitably of course paled into insignificance alongside that tragedy. But it just

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