Alastair Campbell

Um, since when they said, we've had no contact, we've had no encouragement, we've had no sense of, you know, what the plan is.

Um, so I think it's kind of down, a lot of this is down to old fashioned political management, just not being quite what it should be.

But the other thing that I feel, and I know it's difficult for Andy Burnham because he's... I've just got a gift challenge.

But see, if you look at the way that, and you've seen this in some of Andy Burnham's media appearances, is that he's almost having to pretend that he's doing something that he's not.

He's running for election in Mayfield.

He wants to put the place on his map and take the place as high as he can go, etc.,

Um, and that means that he can't, I mean, for example, if he was suddenly to make a big speech about the future of defense spending or, you know, our policy on Iran, people would start thinking, hold on a minute, you're not the prime minister, what's going on?

But actually the thing that the labor party and the public need to know before there is any change is what he does believe and what he does stand for in terms of foreign policy, Europe,

Middle East, all this big stuff that would be on his plate straight away if he became prime minister.

So I think, whether toxic is the right word, I think it is certainly going to be a period of really quite odd turmoil for the Labour Party, which just underlines to me how sad it is to go from in less than two years from a landslide win to this.

It's just, it's not great.

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