Alexandra Topping

I mean, it didn't actually emerge to be this huge surge.

It wouldn't have mattered, even if those two votes were put together.

But it could matter in other constituencies where the electorate is far more to the right.

I mean, let's not forget that Makerfield is like...

a solid Labour seat.

It should be somewhere that Labour wins.

So, you know, Farage will point to that this morning.

But he did seem quite crestfallen, didn't he?

Oh no, you put me on the spot.

I actually don't know.

I've been an outlier in our office because I have said that I think it's still worth putting a bet on Starmer being in place by the end of the year.

That seems increasingly unlikely.

I didn't actually put that bet on, which is probably for the best.

If I was going to make a bet now, I don't think I would be betting on Keir Starmer still being there.

What the Burnham camp really want, I think, is a fairly orderly changing of the guard and perhaps with a coronation of Andy Burnham at Labour Party conference.

Fascinating times ahead for sure.

No, I'm not going to walk away and plunge the country into chaos.

So it's a big, big day.

Two-party politics is not just dying, it is dead and it is buried.