Ben Tonra

I'm not denying that, but I'm just saying there's also an external manipulation of that sense and that feeling.

If they don't have that... All things can be true.

And if they haven't found that one person or that one party that does it, then as of now, it's very disparate and it's just a general sense.

But that could happen.

That could coalesce.

Ben, what does it look like to you?

Well, I mean, Gordon Brown's a bit like Jimmy Carter.

He's a better ex-prime minister than he was prime minister.

And I think that that sense of gravitas and seriousness does play well.

But it does scream of desperation if you're going back to the 1990s to pick your political advisers.

And the other thing, and this was the point that Mark made about sort of an anti-reform UK coalition, the nature of the UK electoral system does not lend itself to that.

You know, Farage only needs to get sort of 31, 32 percent in a first-past-the-post poll, and he could get a stonking majority in Westminster.

So it plays into the stability of the British electorate.

It's hard to say because what Iran is doing is they're dangling Donald Trump.

Donald Trump is desperate for this to end.

He's desperate for the gas prices to come down and the Iranians are not giving him that.

And Donald Trump's in pursuit of something that he had before he launched the war.

He's in pursuit of the opening of the Hormuz Straits and that's his goal now.

So I think the Iranians actually have a hell of a lot more leverage and a hell of a lot more power now than they did before the conflict.

And that's something that I think Donald Trump is really desperately trying to deal with.