Lucy Hough

Yeah.

And obviously, the key question that has been asked in the last few days since the story broke on Thursday is, why on earth did the Prime Minister not know this?

Why didn't he ask about this?

Or was the information available to him or to the Foreign Secretary?

What did we learn this morning?

Did we learn anything new about that?

Another quite shock revelation from this morning was that Number 10 tried to get Matthew Doyle, who was Keir Starmer's former director of communications, a posting as an ambassador and that Sir Oliver was instructed not to discuss that with the foreign secretary.

That's pretty extraordinary.

And I wonder if you can remind people of the context of that and why that's very controversial.

Yeah.

And exactly the same sort of thing that Keir Starmer as leader of the opposition repeatedly criticised Boris Johnson's government for.

I mean, obviously, this is immensely politically damaging for Starmer and for his government.

And Starmer, you know, when he addressed the Commons yesterday, sort of started by taking full accountability for what had happened instead of, you know,

Passing the blame, he's also expressed his, how staggered he was, he's expressed his anger about this.

How do you think this testimony from Sir Oliver Robbins will feed into this kind of swirling scandal and Keir Starmer's future, particularly ahead of the May elections?

Well, you're going to have quite the quiet year, I imagine, Pippa.

Thank you so much for your time.

Thanks for having me.

That's it for today.

My huge thanks again to Pippa Creara, our political editor, who broke this story, along with her colleagues Paul Lewis, head of investigations, and investigations correspondent Henry Dyer last week.