Alastair Campbell

We are losing talent.

We are losing overseas investment.

Our reputation on the world stage is not as strong as it should be.

And you can be as frustrated by this as you like.

and I saw this as foreign secretary, the words UK, England, and London are often used as interchangeable terms on the world stage.

So if we want the UK as a nation to be on fire, in a positive way, I mean, like firing on all cylinders, London needs to work.

Okay, so you're running, okay.

No, it's not, no, look.

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,