Aditya Chakrabortty

So we're going to talk about it, but without anything substantive to offer.

Without doing anything.

Exactly.

So whoever is in the frame to run the party, whoever puts their name forward, the key question they need to answer is what are you going to do that's different?

And how can you do stuff that's sufficiently different, given that, A, you don't have the mandate as leader that Keir Starmer did, B, you have to work within a manifesto that was a tiny, tiny, narrow offering, right?

So that means that it puts all kinds of limits on what they can actually do in office.

And three, you have to negotiate with a parliamentary Labour Party

Many of whom were handpicked by the right of the Labour Party and therefore among some of the most conservative politicians in some of those conservative people in the Labour movement.

And so will not want to do anything particularly radical.

They don't have those kind of radical ideas because if they had had them, you'd have seen them in the past two years.

Okay, the way I see the last six months of Labour

Labour Party politics from January up until nearly June now is basically everyone has known that these elections were going to be absolutely awful.

And there's been this long drawn out game of chess going on about can Kisama stay?

who replaces him, how they get to replace him.

That is a particular existential problem for Andy Burnham because he's not even in Parliament.

Yeah, and I can't see the King of the North taking over in Norfolk, so I don't think that's likely that he'd take up that offer.

But there's an awful lot of moving pieces that have been going around.

You basically had cataclysmic results for the party government on Thursday.

The prime minister comes out and says on Friday morning, yeah, these are really bad.

I'll talk to you later.