Chris Mason

Oh, it's been awful.

I've been sneezing all day.

I've just dashed back from Downing Street.

It sits there right in your throat.

I read today someone suggested marshmallows are the solution.

I might have to try that.

I hate marshmallows.

Do you?

Anyway, carry on.

Anyway, and there were those and there were then also some cabinet ministers who would rather this not all be happening.

But I think we're having conversations with the prime minister about how we might manage this.

You know, what do you do in this situation where you've got so many people kind of calling for you to go?

So that was the backdrop, if you like.

to what we were seeing this morning when ministers filed in for the cabinet meeting and then, as Alex says, kind of piled out and at least some of them volunteered to come over and talk to us, which just doesn't happen normally.

And basically they were trying to shore him up.

Yeah, it was one of those ones where you'd quite like a sort of owl-like kind of movement in your neck because you're constantly sort of one eye is on your phone and the other eye is trying to maintain a look at various doors, gateways and all the rest of it because there's the way that the cars come into Downing Street.

There's a gate that you can walk out on foot at the back.

Obviously, there's the door of number 10.

There's a little way that cars can pull off down the side and you can go in through number 9, which the Home Secretary chose to do this morning and avoid any hollering.

I like the word hollow, Alex, by the way.