Aditya Chakrabortty

Right.

All these others, they're kids.

They've always been in politics.

They don't know anything.

I am an adult.

I'm the adult in the room and I'm going to make things happen.

And I think one thing that you've learned that we've seen tested to destruction over the past two years or so is that basically being the adult in the room, the self-declared adult in the room, isn't enough.

You actually need to do more than be competent.

You need to have some idea about politics and what you actually want to do with your power.

What other famous catchphrases have come out of Keir Starmer's mouth?

We're the party of power, not protest.

Right.

So what are you going to do with your power?

Okay.

And instead of which, getting a clear idea of what he's going to do with his power, you get a single word on the manifesto that everyone knows from the summer of 2024, change.

you get a lot of talk about growth and a growth strategy.

And the growth strategy seems to consist of hoping that growth will come along.

Not much more.

Resets?

And then you get a number of resets as though it's a faulty mobile phone and all you need to keep doing is jabbing at it and it will somehow spring back into life.