Outgoing Tory MP and minister of many things Michael Gove has just stuck his head in the door to take a look at the journalists beavering away.
So is he ready to spin yet?
“There will be no spin,” he tells the reporters. “Only the truth”.
I ask how Rishi Sunak is feeling with under an hour to go until the debate, and with a thumbs up Mr Gove tells me: “Very confident.”
He then leaves the room as quickly as he enters.
I am sure we will see a lot more of him later…
Ashworth: Starmer is worried… about the PM’s policy bill!
With tonight’s debate looming, the spin has begun in earnest with the dramatic entrance of Labour’s Jonathan Ashworth.
Stomping into the room waving a document entitled, “Two weeks, 12 pledges, £71bn still to find”, he shouts about the “chaos” and “desperate scattergun approach” he claims the Tories are taking to their policy announcements.
He promises the gathered journalists that he will be “sitting at the back with a calculator watching Rishi Sunak like a hawk” during the debate to see if he racks up any more bills that are “unfunded”.
I ask him how Sir Keir Starmer is doing as he prepares to face Mr Sunak, and the Labour paymaster general tells me: “He is very worried… worried about the £71bn!”
It is going to be a loud evening in the spin room…
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