Paddy O’Connell

There are at the other end of the spectrum, though, all sorts of other wild things being.

suggested, whether it's in a beautifully constructed colour piece about one of the things that's happening allegedly where Street Sing was ambushed by some of his friends and supporters at a karaoke singing, I just can't wait to be king.

Ho, ho, ho, how we all laughed, metaphor alert.

But the other thing that was put to me was there'd be some kind of reverse takeover of the Northern Labour Party, of the Southern Labour Party by Angela Burnham.

Angela Rayner and Andy Barnum.

I was told they will move as one.

And there might be a situation where she would become the leader to try and deliver the election manifesto from 2024.

But as and when Andy Burnham would find a seat at Westminster and come back to the Commons, carried aloft on the backs of the northern part of the Labour Party, he would then fight the next general election.

Now, that was told to me by someone who's plugged in and pretty sensible and serious, dismissed as complete nonsense by somebody in Angela Rayner's camp.

But that just gives you a flavour of all the many and varied theories that are doing the rounds right now about what might happen in seven days' time.

it sprung back to life under a different leader and they got a thumping majority.

And after all of that talk of the splintering political system, lo and behold, we had the two party system roaring back with one party getting a thumping majority, which looked very much like a traditional red V blue punch up.

where one of them had a very healthy majority.

And were it not for the pandemic, how Boris Johnson ran his life and various other things, well, it looked at that point like history might have been very different, which is a good reminder of why predicting anything too far in advance in politics is a fool's game.

But it keeps a lot of people in work, doesn't it?

In the world, yes.

Well, that is convenient because we've got the Transport Secretary, Heidi Alexander, with us for the government.

So obviously the scarcity and the expensiveness of jet fuel is something that could cause a lot of problems for newscasters in the summer.

So we'll hear tomorrow how the government is hoping...

to try to make sure that we all have happy landings.