Aditya Chakrabortty

You know what, Nishim?

You get these speeches and they are make or break and everyone's meant to be watching them and the fate of the man who runs a country rests upon what he's going to say in half an hour and actually no speech can withstand that amount of pressure.

If after six odd years of Keir Starmer's lead of Labour Party and Prime Minister, you don't know what a Keir Starmer speech sounds like, I feel some degree of envy for you.

But, no, it's Keir Starmer, right?

So he says a bunch of things which he probably means, but to most people, I think they sound fairly platitudinous.

They're about the need for our children to have more hope in their future than we might feel right now for them.

They're about labour, making a change, and we made the big calls right, but we've done some things wrong.

And in the meantime, saying I'm going to change, honest, this time I'm going to change, which, you know, there are times when I watch Keir Starmer promising he's going to change, saying, trust me, honestly, it's going to be different this time.

Honestly, stick with me.

Nosheen Iqbal, it's a pleasure.

Machine, he's probably the most unpopular prime minister ever.

I mean, the popularity, the favourability ratings of Keir Starmer are unbelievably low.

He's beneath Liz Truss for some reason, although he's not done anything near as disastrous in office as she has done.

He hasn't lied barefacedly to the public like Boris Johnson, yet he's seen as a lesser character than Boris Johnson.

Yeah, he really is hugely unpopular.

And the thing that came out of...

last week's election results is that he's unpopular everywhere to everyone.

He's unpopular to people who are leaning left.

He's unpopular to people leaning right.

It depended on which doorstep you were on and where you were, right?