obsessed with this. we ve talked about this a lot on the weekend newscast that david cameron, because of his former job, can sort of slip in and out of that role very, very easily. some people might raise an eyebrow and say, oh, perhaps too easily. but, you know, as you say, actually for prime minister, you re trying to run the country as well as run an election campaign. that is a challenge that they ve got that actually the leader of the opposition doesn t have, you know, before too long there s the g7 as well. i think the prime minister will be trying to cram in and you know, the small matter of still having to deal with red boxes and so on and so forth. but you re right, it does mean that this big moment of history, some of the snaps that we ll see in the papers tomorrow, will not have the british current prime minister. they ll have the former prime minister. and i suppose there is something slightly awkward about that. i have to say, i love the pictures on social medi
in basildon and billericay in essex, which, as luck would have it for mr holden, is one of the safest conservative seats around. so yeah, so that s that. and then we fast forward 2a hours to today as we record on thursday and zoom to the other end of the uk to aberdeenshire and another high profile conservative, douglas ross, who i think i m right in saying was the first conservative, maybe even the first mp in the last parliament to say he would stand down at the election who are suddenly decided with hours to spare that no he won t, and that it actually stand in an aberdeenshire seat, which is was on the last minute lookout for a conservative candidate, because david jukes, who is a former minister and has been in a spinal injuries unit for quite a while, serious injury was not standing even though he wanted to, because he said the party he is his health was you know, was a was an issue. he did want to stand there, though. so it s one of those examples where you can see real often an
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