headlines, investigations and damage to the prime minister's reputation, but that would not have been continual front—page headlines of the sort that you get when you have a story continually topped up with revelations undermining the government story, which cast doubt on what the prime minister says. this is definitely a bad story either way, a catastrophic error of judgment of the government, but the way they handled it means it has lasted a lot longer, itjanuary. we do not know how many e—mails, video clips or other things are out there which could keep this going for however long. do you think there are more? i have no idea but it would not surprise me at this point. i spoke to a couple of members of the covid bereaved families with and one of them said to be the prime minister is hiding behind the investigation being carried out by senior civil servant sue gray. what is your take on why he has not simply said he was about or not at