Paddy O’Connell

Newscast.

Thinking about it like a panto helped.

Hello, it's Laura in the studio.

Hello, it's Paddy in the studio.

And it is Chris at Westminster.

Glad to be back at the weekend gang after our cast festival a couple of weeks ago.

And here I am on a Saturday again.

It's a joy.

Very nice to have you with us.

We are recording at six minutes past two on Saturday.

So just a timestamp, because it may be by the time this is in your levels, more things will have happened because a lot of things have happened.

Even some more election results have come in since the last newscast of the thousand newscasts that have been during this election cycle.

Highlands and Islands result was called at 1.21 in the morning.

Reform and the Greens in Scotland both won two seats.

And the SNP, the Tories and the Scottish Lib Dems all picked up one seat.

And also, Chris, in the last few hours, I mean, there's just a kind of little ticker tape, isn't there, going with Labour MPs one by one.

all miraculously using the same sort of formulation, not saying that Keir Starmer should go away right away, but saying that he must set out a timetable for his departure.

Yeah.

I love the idea, by the way, of a declaration at one in the morning for something that wasn't an overnight count.

That was like to count during the day.