Andy Zaltzman

Who's going to be leader?

All that kind of stuff.

And...

I think it might be time for the journalists to just try a different approach and just start shouting quiz questions instead.

Minister, what was the name of the Argentinian footballer who was sent off in the 1966 World Cup quarterfinal against England at Wembley?

Or just wild conspiracy theories.

Minister, is it true that King Charles is plotting with the army to bring down Parliament and reintroduce a proper fucking monarchy?

Or just questions such as, Minister, what is love?

And they might get more of a reaction.

Another thing Starmer struggles with is how hard it is to turn around perceptions in modern politics, particularly from

with a very hostile media.

Even the left-wing media didn't like him because he was not left enough.

He's quite a hard politician to warm to, and the right-wing media doesn't like him because he's Labour.

Fundamentally, Keir Starmer could save a drowning puppy from a river and give it back to its distraught eight-year-old owner, and most of the British media would report it as Keir Starmer tries to feed weeping child to carnivore.

It's hard for him.

It's hard.

Well, yeah, so reform did pretty well in the local elections, but they do seem to have plateaued somewhat.

No sign that they can get beyond the 25 to 30 percent of voting voters who support the things that reform support that are massively unpopular.

So it's hard to see how reform can become popular.

more uh more popular but yes so a reformed councillor has has quit um because it turns out that being a councillor is quote dull and boring um alice that's uh i mean is this a just a rare blast of actual honesty from a politician