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Helen lewis, writer at the atlantic, first up, can you just clarify how normal is it for a journalist to move between journalism and politics like that? well, it's enormously common in one direction, moving from journalism into politics, if you think about the fact that you know, david cameron's spokesman was craig oliver. you know, this is not, you know, labour had seamus milne from the guardian. you know, this is not an unusual thing at all. what's slightly more unusual in this case is moving back again so quickly. and also and that, i think, is the thing that makes it very hard because peop...

The views of politicians. and i think it's a good thing and it's been a good thing for democracy, and it'll be interesting to see how ruth gets on on times radio. good luck to them. ok, phil, we'll come back to you in a moment. but let's start with the dramatic scenes that i expect will be dominating tomorrow's front pages. borisjohnson appeared at prime minister's questions today after a pretty dramatic morning, which included an mp defecting from the conservatives to labour. what did you make of it all? laura hughes, political correspondent at the ft. well, it was, not to sound like a footba...

Of the head of the covid task force having a leaving party, for example. but i think it is significant to me that tory supporting papers, papers have been very sympathetic to brexit have been willing, particularly in recent days, tojoin what otherwise might have been dismissed as a kind of leftie luvvie dismissal of, you know, minor things that real people who actually care about real issues don't. you know, this is you can sense it sometimes when you're a journalist, there isjust a kind of pack mentality. and what's become fascinating is watching that pack mentality kind of take over here. an...

Borisjohnson was much better able, better equipped to deal with than the contrition that you could see he found very difficult on last week's pmqs and indeed notably in that interview that took place with beth rigby yesterday. we can see why you were good at your spinning job back then! helen lewis from the atlantic. that quote from david davis, you know, it's the kind of quote that newspaper editors dream of, isn't it? yeah, i thought it was very interesting to go back and have a look at the hansard records of that 1940 debate because leo amery, who delivered it the first time — well, the s...

I mean, a pointless attempt at distraction, if you like. i mean, either borisjohnson is being badly advised or he's being very well advised and he's ignoring the advice. but, whichever it is, he's ending up trying to, as i say, sort of tick—box populist policies to allow some of his potential critics on the backbenches to feel that their hobbyhorse issue is being advanced. at the same time as the british public and the activists — the tory activists — can see that he looks a broken man, and those optics, i think, have a much more profound impact than any policy that he might try to put f...