Paddy O’Connell

Also, I suppose the media always, by its very nature, the news is about things that are

Unusual.

Unusual and new.

So, of course, reform success is unusual and very significant.

The Greens' recent surge is new and significant.

The Lib Dems, yes, did have advances and absolutely we should talk about them and cover them.

But, you know, news, as you say, it is the things when things change or they suddenly happen unexpectedly that those do tend to be the things that dominate the headlines.

But, yeah, the Liberal Democrats...

do well in local government.

They had a decent time this week and they are, you know, on the march.

Let's return to this subject.

Now, look, we've got to apparently play some amazing audio between Victoria Atkins, Robert Jenrick with Sophie Rayworth.

Do you know anything about this?

I do.

Can you tee it up?

I can.

So during the long hours of election broadcasting, Victoria Atkins, who is a member of the shadow cabinet, who once upon a time backed Robert Jenrick for the Conservative leadership, was sitting alongside said Robert Jenrick.

And she revealed to The Nation, which was an interesting decision to do so, that the two of them had not spoken since Jenrick defected

to reform and she talked about how incredibly upset she had been by this decision

and tried to provoke him into confronting what many Conservatives believe was his bad behaviour.