and simonjack, the bbc s business editor, is here in the studio. good to see you, simon, and good to have you bothjoining us from parts around the uk while we maintain all our social distancing forjust that little bit longer as a result of what s happening at the moment. let s begin in downing street, who have been having a week they d rather forget. three things may explain why. a newspaper published a photo of a christmas party last year held in the basement of borisjohson s party headquarters, at a time when all such activities were against the law. the uk s leading civil servant, the cabinet secretary, was investigating gatherings inside downing street, one of them in the prime minister s own flat at least he was. it turns out his office organised what it called a christmas party, too. on tuesday, the imposition of covd vaccine certficates, which have become a condition of entry to public venues, provoked the biggest rebellion of borisjohnson s premiership. 100 mps that s hal