Alistair Campbell

That's a disaster for the Labour Party and for the country.

So you've got to weigh all of these things up.

So what they've decided, I think, is that the considerable short-term hit that they've suffered and the sense of Andy Burnham now being an even bigger figure,

as a sort of antidote and an opponent of Keir Starmer, they've decided that is better to live with than the prospect, one, of a guy coming in and you just have endless, when's he going to make his move, when's he going to make his move, when's he going to make his move, or a reform win in Manchester.

They are considerable factors that I think they were right to weigh up.

Look, I think he's in a really, really tough place.

And to have gone so quickly from a three-figure landslide majority to this sense of people are having those sorts of conversations.

So I think he's in a really tough place.

I don't think he knows that.

And the question then, given that one of his big messages was country before party.

Where does that lead to?

I think he's in a really difficult place.

I don't know about a percentage, but I'm shocked by two things.

One, in the public, because I don't think Keir Starmer's a hateful person at all, but a number of people say, I hate that guy, I hate that guy.

I really don't get that.

But I think what you're hearing amongst a lot of the MPs is that, you know, this just isn't working.

Partly that.

They don't sort of feel that they're able to connect with the public on what they call the good things that they are doing, which I can list, and I think they are doing a lot of good stuff.

I think here has been impressive, particularly on the foreign affairs field.

The big thing that ties that together is the fact that the slogan was change.