Alastair Campbell

And I do this, I do, I do the terribly unfashionable thing as a, as a politician, which is say that, of course I'm, of course I have thought about it.

And of course I am thinking about it, but I have not decided one way or the other because it's a, it's a big step.

I love being the MP for Braintree and, and I'll be loath to step away from that.

And then the final point of Farage, I cannot see that circumstance coming to pass because he has made it absolutely clear.

He wants to destroy the conservative party.

I said I was speaking up in Stockton-upon-Tees on Friday night, and I made the point that if there was a dating app, if there was a political criminal with a dating app, and the profile said, I want to destroy you,

I'm not sure that I would want to match up on that particular dating app.

And he keeps saying over and over again, he hates us.

He wants to destroy us.

He he's got this real vendetta because he thinks the conservative party undervalued him and the mocked him and et cetera.

So some of which may be true.

So I, I don't think that's, I don't think that's credible, but the direct answer is no, I wouldn't because either I,

He would be the senior partner in a coalition and would be taking the country in a disastrous direction.

Or he would be the junior partner in a coalition.

And I just don't think he would accept that.

His ego wouldn't let him.

And if he was the senior partner in the coalition, I think he would do the country an enormous amount of damage.

Because that's what we're seeing happen at local government level.

Because it's all performative.

It's all feels.