you're right, i was praising tim shipman to peter fear, you're right, i was praising tim shipman to peterfear, he's astonishingly diligent, the number of sources he's got —— heater off air. he's got a great quote about jacob rees—mogg saying, he's not a man to network, he is more of a blue skies thinker. steve baker, who we mentioned earlier, is seen as a hand to hand fighting guy. inputting jacob and steve together, they have made the perfect killing machine, an u nfortu nate made the perfect killing machine, an unfortunate image when you were talking about trying to make peace with any party. but it's not peace, its open warfare, who knows how it's going to pay out —— play out? theresa may looking almost lovingly at donald trump! it's like the worst date you've ever been on, you want to meet this guy but he's just ignoring you, how dare he! note -- no fury like a prime minister scored! you alluded to this little earlier, peter mandelson, a name we didn't meet a lot of recently —— here a lot of recently. peter mandelson over the years has been absolutely evangelical about the e

serious reporters, tim shipman and roy mcarthur. they would know this, they are there. i have never seen a piece about the president of the united states in which the royal family has actually said no. i mean, there wasn't an invitation. i am sure if the queen wanted them there they would have been there. but the feelers were sent out and they said they had other things to do, which isa very they had other things to do, which is a very interesting thing, and i'm sure the president doesn't know about this at all. even this, for instance. prince philip, 97, has retired from public life but he still does things he likes. he didn't go to this. the kind of thing, from what i know about the man, he would probably go to something about carriage driving people he already knows. why would you to go to an inspection of the troops? i think the point is, what you it was very spare around her. she has a huge family. she is very family—oriented. she has a young grandchild. somebody could have been there. the oak room, which i have never heard of before, just looking at it, maybe be

just reading the papers yesterday, tim shipman got to sit down with, the sunday times political editor said that compared with when they had spoken after the election, she looked very lacking in confidence, she was quite steely, quite resolved, looked commanding, and yet here we are, as you say. the whole thing is so unstable that it could unravel over the coming minutes, and hours. so yes, she and her colleagues will be continuing to have lots and lots of conversations, but above all i think they will be watching cabinet colleagues very closely, trying to get a sense of what is going on in the foreign office, because all eyes are surely on borisjohnson at office, because all eyes are surely on boris johnson at the moment to see whether he decides that his own position is untenable. because there isa position is untenable. because there is a possibility that theresa may could circle the wagons, if she can get the support of people like michael gove,... get the support of people like michael gove, . .. she get the support of people like michael gove,... she has got that support, accordi