Ailbhe Rea

Because this is a really unique situation the Labour Party hasn't found itself in before.

Exactly.

And obviously this came up particularly because there was this whole idea that West Streeting had lots of ministers who were supportive of him, but obviously couldn't be open about that when he was in the running for the leadership.

And Number 10 was saying, nope, they'd absolutely have to resign and wouldn't be able to be open about their support for him.

And Streeting Team's response was obviously, well, that means that you're scared of how many nominations you would get.

So this is a kind of context.

And now it does seem like basically it has been suspended, but nobody has said it out loud.

It's not officially happened.

And so you've got this situation where Keir Starmer didn't take the advice that he was receiving from Morgan McSweeney, I'm told, to sack the dissenters in the cabinet.

So including Shabana Mahmood, who had obviously told him that his time was up.

And at the same time, he's now not sacking, at time of speaking, not sacking Mike Tapp.

Not sacking Mike Tapp for doing something that clearly, I think, does breach collective responsibility.

And it's interesting and very familiar that the kind of common thread in both those scenarios is inaction.

Thank you.

Thanks for having me.