Three minutes after ten is the time. A very good morning indeed to you. I'll say it first, fella. I'll beat you to the punch on this one. Every time you think that things can't get any crazier, along comes British politics. Along comes post-Brexit British politics. This astonishing, a Grand Prix of clowncast that we've now been enduring for over half a decade shows no sign of ending soon.

I said to you some time ago that we're one, probably two more conservative leaders away from the recognition of reality.

I wasn't factoring into that prediction, the possibility that one of them might be one who's already had a go before.

But that, of course, is the talking point that the right-wing media wants you to focus on,

the prospect of Boris Johnson's return.

Just as, only, what, two months ago, they were absolutely adamant that Liz Truss would be a brilliant

prime minister and she must be installed in Downing Street at all costs to the exclusion of Penny Morden, most obviously, in Rishi Sunak when the choice finally went to the members. They move almost silently from one incredibly pungent opinion in support of someone who proved to be the worst prime minister we will hopefully ever have,

to lobbying to bring back the second worst prime minister we will hopefully ever have.

It is objectively incredible.

It's also, and I touched on this yesterday, and I won't dwell on it unduly,

because I appreciate that it's not necessarily what you tune in for.

But imagine a set of scales.

And on one side of the scales, you have what I would loosely describe as journalistic glee.

It's not confined to journalists.

There is an excitement to events that can affect anybody, really.

Anyone can get caught up in the moment of unexpected events or unprecedented events. But I'm going to call it because of what I do for a living.

I'm going to call it journalistic glee. And I felt it yesterday. I hadn't felt it for a while.

I have to be honest with you, but shortly after I came

off air, inevitably, it was announced that Liz Truss was going to make a statement, half past

one. They couldn't, half an hour. Liz Truss was going to make a statement at half a first one yesterday.

And there's a thrill goes through a newsroom at times like that, even a newsroom battered by

comparable events in recent years, a newsroom that still holds fresh in the memory, the

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