Chris Mason

And perhaps less good news for where streeting the health secretary, because outwardly one vehicle via which, uh, turbulence could coalesce if turbulence can coalesce.

Um,

had seemingly kind of gone.

But, but, in the hours since lunchtime, and the pace has quickened, as we record it just before 7 o'clock on Monday evening, in the hours from Monday lunchtime to Monday tea time, the trickle of Labour MPs going public, saying he should go or set out a time table to go,

seemed to turn from a trickle into a flow.

And then at six o'clock or a couple of minutes before six o'clock, we had two ministerial aides, parliamentary private secretaries, to give them their official title.

It's the most junior rung of the kind of government ladder, saying that they also thought that their boss should go.

Among them, Joe Morris, who was the parliamentary private secretary himself.

To one, Wes Streeting, he of significant prime ministerial ambition.

Another, Tom Rutland, who was a PPS to the environment secretary, Emma Reynolds.

And there's been a third resignation of a third PPS saying that the prime minister should resign.

I don't think they have yet resigned from their PPS role themselves.

But that's a notching up.

They're not household names.

They're not ministers.

They're certainly not cabinet ministers.

But it is a notch up because it is people who are bound by the collective responsibility of government saying the guy at the top of the government should go.

Indeed, because as things stand, which is an important sentence to use at the moment.

This is now 6.47.

As things stand, there isn't a wannabe candidate who publicly is seeking those 81 names.