Henry Zeffman

Exactly.

It is the defining question, arguably, of our time, isn't it?

In a domestic sense, and a wider Western democratic sense, of if you have an era that is...

almost a generation wide, of where real incomes have been post the financial crisis in 2008.

We can't and shouldn't be surprised, either in a big picture sense or in the reality of seeking employment sense, that that

is a defining aspect of the national conversation and has a bearing on the national mood and therefore has a bearing on the longevity or otherwise of prime ministers and governments.

I don't think it's too big a stretch to draw a line

if not a straight line, then a dotted line or a ziggy-zaggy line between those two things.

I think your question and your experience, which is replicated millions of times over, is absolutely central to so many of the underlying conversations that we have in politics the whole time.

Can I shimmy from that to an infinitely more trivial observation?

Which is...

Is the one defining characteristic you have to have if you are aspiring to be Prime Minister of the UK and you are a bloke, that you've got to have a good head of hair?

Because I can't think... I found myself disappearing down this rabbit hole recently in a rare moment of... I should have taken that moment to think about something other than politics, but if you just think back through our most recent male Prime Ministers of any political stripe, whatever their age...

Keir Starmer's got a good head of hair for a guy in his mid-60s.

It's really helped him.

Rishi Sunak is my age.

He has a big head of hair as well.

Boris Johnson famously.

That would dent my theory.

Ah, now that's a twist, isn't it?