Andy Zaltzman

So in a way, I guess that's something for everyone.

And as I said, it's less than two years since Starmer won a mandate from the voting public at the election, albeit with our first-past-the-post voting system, one of those weird half-arsed conditional mandates in which the electorate clearly had its fingers crossed behind its back.

He got about 20% of the overall vote.

33% of the actual votes with a low turnout and still got a massive majority, which is essentially the public saying, we're really not sure about this.

Like using a dating app at your own wedding.

It's not sending the right signals.

Well, in terms of rejoining Europe, next month will be 10 years since Brexit.

which happened during the Bugle hiatus between the John Oliver era and the, well, what everyone clearly thinks of as the Alice Fraser, Josh Gondelman, plus others era.

And is Britain, I don't think this nation is thirsting to rejoin Europe now, 10 years on from the vote.

And I think it's what, five or six years since Brexit actually came into effect.

But I do think a significant majority of this country is thirsting to go back in time to before Brexit.

which is different to wanting to rejoin Europe and possibly equally achievable, to be honest.

I mean, clearly, you know, Brexit has not been an unqualified success as yet.

I think even the most ardent Brexit fans would acknowledge that.

And I think what we have to do, we have to give it time.

It's probably too early to reopen those still open wounds still further.

What we need to do is let Brexit take its course.

And if it's going really, really well after 40 years, then we abandon it and rejoin the EU.

That's basically the principle by which Brexit happened itself in the first place.

So West Street wrote a letter of resignation in which he said, where we need vision, we have a vacuum, and where we need direction, we have drift.