Laura Kuenssberg
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It's worth a diversion.
But, you know, maybe he's already come to London to try and avoid absolute pandemonium at Euston tomorrow.
But, you know, we'll see.
Tomorrow is going to feel absolutely...
Huge.
Because it is.
That's right.
And I think also we should say, it depends as well how you define this question of how many prime ministers we've had in 10 years.
So I already had a very cross former minister saying, you mustn't suggest it would be the seventh prime minister in 10 years because David Cameron was actually prime minister all the way from 2010 to 2016.
So actually you're there suggesting we were trying to say things were more rocky than they were.
There'd be six changes of prime minister since, oh no, it would be the seventh prime minister
change and that is absolutely extraordinary and it's also not cost free.
So one of the elements that we were discussing on the programme this morning was with Simon Case who was the cabinet secretary for basically for all of them, for Boris Johnson, for Rishi Sunak, for Liz Truss and then for Keir Starmer.
And he said, you know, very plainly and clearly that there is a cost to this because the financial markets are already charging us more to borrow because of instability in politics.
He said there's a cost as well because important decisions just don't get made because you don't know who the minister is.
The decision maker is unclear.
And that's something that, you know, politicians love talking about power.
They love talking about who's up and down.
So do we.
Let's face it.