Alex Davies-Jones

Let's see where you get to.

And, you know, the rules of the Labour Party, it's also saying that if somebody challenges Keir Starmer for the leadership and gets the requisite number of MPs, 81, Keir Starmer's automatically in that leadership contest.

I know, I was reading the Labour Party rulebook today, which is very long, actually.

It's a very long rulebook.

So he said there would be a contest.

So that was exactly that.

That's why everybody referenced that John Major moment.

And John Major did win that leadership contest.

Yes.

But what did it do?

It obviously diminished his authority ultimately, because I think there is a sort of inevitability about when a prime minister in particular, I think, is openly challenged by his own party.

then obviously his own party are questioning his leadership and judgment.

So it's almost inevitable that leads to some erosion of authority.

Having said that, I think this is why today particularly we have seen so many Labour MPs, 100, come out in support of the Prime Minister because they're so wound up about this.

To the people who are being his open critics, they're really annoyed about it because they see that the potential is that the authority is eroded or that the instability continues and they don't think that that should be the right course of action.

And I just want to caveat all of that thought with a really quick one is there is a possibility with no reference to political history here, but there is a possibility that perhaps Keir Starmer, let's see how this unfolds.

If he does see off his critics, if he does, if we get to a leadership contest and win it, this is all kind of very hypothetical.

There is a possibility where he might come out stronger if there's a big showdown.

We don't know.

It feels like I honestly do not know how this is going to unfold.