Paddy O’Connell

Are they meeting in Andy Burnham's house?

What's happening?

I remember reading...

very senior Conservatives in the papers and hearing privately from senior Conservatives that they wanted Labour to work.

They didn't want the political agenda of Labour, but they felt after the chaos of the last few years under the Conservative rule that it was good for the country, that Labour could come in and go, ''Ah, don't worry, we're going to do this.''

Conservatives could argue, ''I wish you wouldn't do that.''

But instead what's happened is that they're not able to pursue the agenda that they originally stood on.

One of the biggest things they now say they did, they said in the manifesto they wouldn't do, or at least they didn't put in the manifesto, which was raise the benefit rules about how many children, at which point benefits are capped.

Into this rides the King's Speech on Wednesday, is it, Henry?

They've got to come up with a programme.

So, I mean, that is normally, this is my government.

The King will stand there and say what my government intends to do on a list of up to 30 things I think we had last time, didn't we?

So do we know what's going to be in the King's Speech?

And I don't know if you can change it because isn't it already written on goat skin?

Didn't it used to be written on goat skin?

Vellum.

Goat vellum or vellum?

Vellum?

No, well, vellum isn't goat, but I thought it was written... Oh, right, OK, sorry.

I'm pretty sure that the traditional monarch speech is written on a piece of old goat.