Robert Peston

I mean, I've been stuck outside Downing Street.

It's always freezing cold in Downing Street, by the way.

I don't know what the weather's like.

It's always freezing cold.

And actually, this time of year, it's both cold and there are these weird plane trees.

It's a wind trap, but also there are these plane trees that have, I can't remember what it is.

It's a sort of pollen, right, which gets in your throat, gets in your eyes.

You cough the whole time.

It's horrific, right?

Who are you, love?

OK, all right.

I can tell that, you know, like most of the country, you don't have a lot of sympathy for me.

But the point is, it's been a terrible look for Britain over the last decade, the lack of stability, the numbers of, you know, leaders we've had.

In 2022, one year alone, you know, we had Johnson and then Truss and then Sooner.

We had three prime ministers in a matter of just weeks, as it were.

But what is it, something like seven prime ministers since 2015, something like that?

You know, it's such a bad look for Britain, for the rest of the world.

It doesn't look as though our government is stable or consistent.

One of the reasons we pay so much to borrow is because nobody thinks that we have strong government anymore.

Shocking, isn't it?