Catherine Haddon

Well, there's a battle between Number 10 and the sort of Ollie Robbins Foreign Office.

Obviously, it's now a bit divided because Robbins is no longer there.

You know, there is an interim permanent undersecretary at the Foreign Office.

So it's not really the current Foreign Office who's sort of pushing what was happening during Ollie Robbins' time.

It's Ollie Robbins on his own.

But yes, it is, shall I say, a little bit unusual that they are putting the civil service defending the Prime Minister's position on this sort of scandal at the forefront.

So I was a little bit surprised to hear that Cat Little is appearing sort of tomorrow so urgently.

It's worth saying the government has a degree of control about which officials appear when in front of select committees.

I mean, you know, Keir Starmer has obviously since the Humble Address wanted to be transparent or appear to be transparent about this process, releasing documents and so forth, obviously coming in front of the Commons, delivering statements when new information comes to light and so forth.

But normally governments are quite reluctant or at least careful about when civil servants will come and appear.

And it is very unusual to put civil servants in the sort of firing line in front of a quite political scandal.

So I can only sort of assume that, you know, they want Cat Little appearing because there's some things that they want to come out that they think are best delivered by her.

So I would expect some kind of revelation.

And the same is true about Morgan McSweeney.

You know, he's not in government anymore.

But of course, they must have spoken to him.

Some of the statements they've had out about new information coming to light, particularly about whether there was this pressure on.

on the Foreign Office suggests that somebody must have gone and talked to Morgan McSweeney and said, what's your take on this?

What would you say if you were asked all these questions?

So I don't think it's just Morgan McSweeney has decided, yes, I will appear and my diary is actually free next week.