Will She Use the S Word?

I had about 20 minutes before I went to Downing Street to work out what I was going to ask. And obviously at the top of my kind of list was, will she use the S word? The Chancellor said sorry for not having a forecast or rejecting a forecast with the mini budget - which by implication means they couldn't be avoided if they had. But it was much harder to get a sort of sense of contrition from her. There was one in the end, but it took a couple of additional attempts. My opening question was who's to blame for this mess and she said sorry. Later on when I tried to push her for specific kind of apologies, not least for those people