Chris Mason

It's always difficult for a prime minister to lose ministers.

On a day where you lose four ministers, let's just park everything else.

That is an awkward moment without question.

And then particularly if their parting shot, and the usual ritual is a letter, is a pretty devastating critique of your governing style.

And both Miata Fambula...

who was the first minister to resign.

Communities minister.

Yeah, at about half past nine this morning.

Her critique was pretty spiky.

Jess Phillips, Home Office minister, very spiky in her critique.

It's just a sense of things not being achieved, not getting things done.

And Alex, there were some further, a couple of other ministerial resignations this afternoon.

I think the thing I think is worth mentioning in a day or a handful of days where you get this kind of drama and resignations and letters and all that kind of stuff is,

Remember, they're human beings.

It's human beings making sometimes quite difficult, fine judgment calls.

Imagine aspiring to hold elected office and to serve in government.

And you're invited to be a minister of the crown.

You're serving in government, which is an extraordinary privilege for people to get to do.

And then to decide to volunteer to walk away and in so doing publicly criticise, you know, the guy who was on the head of the ticket, if you like, of your party when you won your seat in parliament.

And to do that and come out and make an argument that some will agree with and others will disagree with about why you've chosen to do that.