In low growth Britain there is one business that is booming - news. No end of material is working its way through the media machine to websites, newspapers, televisions, and radio. And if you miss any of that, there are always podcasts, the latest of which is BBC Scotland’s Scotcast.

Before we look at how the newest broadcast on the block is faring, yesterday brought a reminder that the old guard of politics coverage, the Sunday shows, have an important role to play yet. Who else is going to set the scene for another tumultuous week in the life of Starmer’s toddler government?

This week’s Saturday night scandal going into Sunday morning uproar was the sacking of Labour health minister Andrew Gwynne for offensive comments on a WhatsApp chat. In one message the MP wished one of his elderly constituents dead for asking about bin collection.

The big interview on BBC1’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg was recorded on Saturday, before the Gwynne story broke. Angela Rayner, deputy Prime Minister was therefore spared questions on how the likes of Gwynne ever made it through vetting.

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Rayner faced uncomfortable questions of her own on plans to demolish Grenfell Tower, on the government’s performance in general and her actions in particular.

Some of the families of the 72 people who died in the Grenfell fire were invited to a meeting with Rayner. A number of those present later said the minister had been aggressive and upsetting. Rayner regretted if that was the impression given, and said there was no consensus on what to do with the site and probably never would be.

So far Rayner........

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