Chris Mason

As things stand, the whole question about her tax, the thing that cost her a job in government, still loitering.

And then with this, you know, who knows what the timeline might be, given the various sort of plates that are spinning at the moment.

And yeah, exactly.

That's exactly what you'd be doing.

And I would reel off an articulate and well-sourced answer in theory, or maybe just a load of waffle.

I don't know.

In reality, frankly...

Very few of us in this postcode have been able to give it much of a thought because for all the aforementioned reasons, really.

We know a bit of it because the Prime Minister had a crack at trailing one element of it, which is the whole business of wanting to nationalise British steel.

British Steel.

But yeah, this is going to be the sort of essence of his plan for the next year or so.

And the intriguing thing in terms of all of this drama and then that moment is twofold.

One is that at least publicly for a little bit, there's going to be something of a hiatus in all likelihood whilst it is happening.

Not least because lots of the key players will be there.

And it would look quite something, wouldn't it, if you were a wannabe alternative kind of prime minister and you sort of tried to politically kind of nuke the sovereign delivering the king's speech.

But also, and this is key...

You know, if and when we get to a contest and there's a new prime minister, a key element of them making an argument that they have a mandate when critics will say they don't because it wasn't them on the ticket at the general election will be.

arguing that they are delivering the manifesto upon which Labour won that general election.

And at least a partial articulation of that is what we're going to get in the King's speech.

Now, that doesn't mean that the government under Keir Starmer, nor necessarily the one under anyone else, would implement every dot and comma of what we get tomorrow.