Well, fancy seeing you here again. This is Luke Jones. I'm still in for Matt Chauley because

Matt Chauley is still on holiday. I don't know, topping up his hands, spending his tour millions.

Who knows? I don't like to pry. Anyway, there is a load in store while he's away. Today,

we're going to do a DC90 Kingdom as Matt Normy does on a Wednesday. We'll take you around

the four corners of the UK and here. Well, there are reactions to party gates and also

other news happening on those journeys patch as well. First, though, we'll get to our columnists

this morning, Alice Thompson and Robert Crampton from the Times.

Alice, what did you make of the apologies last night? Well, my problem is I think Risha is almost

as bad as the Prime Minister because I found the idea that you'd agonise over whether to stay

or go. I mean, either you think you've done something wrong and you feel that morally it was the

right thing to do to go or you don't. You don't wait and see what the reaction is and then decide

whether or not you've still got enough backing. In some ways, I think he's now being pulled down

to Boris Johnson's level and I think that's the problem with Boris is that once one person starts

lying, everyone sort of becomes more like him and I think now they're all copying him and I think

all of that Bench Torium piece as well as the cabinet now sound worse and worse. I think they

I mean, I think they will have a huge payback in the polls because you just can't believe that

they'll all be so sick of anti-tum and they just lie on his on his behalf. So in the line,

just drop it out then, I think, Robert. Yeah, I think Alice is right. I think there's going to be a

payback if they, I mean, they're going to stay, aren't they? And then but people have got long

memories just thinking about the 1945 election where you know, it was like thanks for winning the

war Mr Churchill and then they voted you out because people remember the depression from 10 years

earlier and I think the public will punish the government for this your the tweets and emails

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