Chris Mason

I'll just put it like that.

We'll come on to that in a second.

But Chris, Faisal's point that he was just making there is one that's being made as we record by the prime minister in parliament as he wanders around speaking to his colleagues, isn't it?

Right, I've massively scrambled the timeline now.

So let's go back to our linear timeline of what's been happening today on Wednesday.

So we've had Wes Streeting going into number 10 Downing Street for his non-lungo coffee.

So it was short.

Lots of speculation about what Wes Streeting will do next.

But then kind of the formal bit of the day kicked off with the state opening of Parliament.

So the coach and the crown travelling down from Buckingham Palace.

And then the two plot lines got smooshed together when Black Rod, the parliamentary official who walks from the Lords down the corridor to the House of Commons to summon MPs to come and listen to the King, read out the King's speech in the House of Lords, bangs his rod off.

on the door of Parliament.

Now, in the old days, Dennis Skinner, the Labour backbencher, would make a joke about how much he didn't like the royal family.

Today, some wag made a joke about all of this.

Not now, Andy.

We think the MP Torquil Crichton said.

A former journalist.

A former journalist.

Very effective journalist.

But yeah, so Chris, that was just one of those moments where, yeah, the two plot lines collided.