The Prime Minister’s plane from the other side of the world has just landed after a 17-hour shlep from the G20 Summit in Bali in Indonesia.
It’s fair to say none of us are rivalling daisies in the freshness stakes.
Today is likely to be a defining moment for the Prime Minister – as he maps out the contours of his governing strategy.
Rishi Sunak spoke to the Chancellor every day while he was away, despite the time difference, and his back to back appointments with world leaders.
“We will face into the storm,” Jeremy Hunt will tell the Commons later.
Not exactly the “let sunshine win the day” optimism of David Cameron all those years ago.
The brutal truth is that what sounds like good news to the financial markets – that the government is economically credible – will sound like bad news for millions of households.
Bad news is rarely politically popular and Conservative MPs in particular are no fans of tax rises.
But after the near death experience for the Tories in recent months they are – in the most part – likely to swallow it, and hope that being seen as competent, if they are, is the start of repairing their reputation and opinion poll ratings.
Source: BBC