Alexandra Topping

But I think we have to remember that this is probably the strongest position he'll ever be in.

Yeah, this is it, isn't it?

This is the top.

Nothing is inevitable in this game, but I think his path to number 10 is much less bumpy now than it looked even 24 hours ago, but certainly than it looked several months ago.

I think it's actually been an astonishingly quick journey to Westminster.

Keir Starmer has said this morning he's going to fight on.

I was at the G7 at Evian and he looked very relaxed.

He was saying, you know, I will fight.

He was saying it in quite punchy terms in a way that we haven't really heard from the prime minister before.

But this morning he will be asking himself those questions.

You know, is it the right thing to stay?

I think there is going to be, it sounds like at least there's going to be a pause in the Burnham camp.

Team Burnham are very much hoping that they can get a coronation rather than a very messy fight, which could be interesting.

very damaging for the party, particularly in the eyes of the electorate.

We saw what happened with the Tories in 2022.

UK voters do not like internal fighting.

They want people to be getting on with the job.

And that's always been Starmer's argument.

We need to not have the fight, get on with the job.

And I think people will be saying to him behind the scenes now, if you don't want that fight, if you don't want to tear this party apart,