It’s 15th December and the Royal College of Nursing is staging national strikes, the first in its 106-year history. I go to trawl the morning interviews with government ministers to see what their response is, but there are none. Since the rule of Rishi began, a deer-in-headlights minister explaining the government’s position (or paltering, depending on your point of view) has become a rare media occurrence. It’s almost as if our new prime minister has come to the conclusion that his frontbench is so witless that its members make things worse by explaining them.