Chris Mason

It's more like an after-dinner speech, after the King's speech, isn't it?

Yeah.

Right, I mean, I think we've sort of covered most of the day, which leaves us with what's going to happen next.

Right, right.

But the reason there's so much heat around the idea that Wes Streeting might announce his leadership challenge on Thursday is because allies and friends of Wes Streeting have been suggesting that that's what's going to happen.

So that's not just us going, oh, can we move this along, please?

And all the nominee, the 81 nominees, all those names are published.

Yeah.

And just a reminder, for a Labour leadership contest, as we were just saying, a person has to get 81 nominations from Labour backbenchers to trigger the contest.

And then the incumbent prime minister is automatically included in that contest.

They do not have to go out and get 81 nominations themselves.

And Chris, just before we go, because it's now 17 minutes past seven, two other stories bubbling under the last couple of days.

Nigel Farage is going to be investigated by the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner over that five million pound gift he got from the cryptocurrency and other things millionaire before he was an MP.

Yes.

And Zach Polanski, leader of the Greens in England and Wales, turns out the houseboat he was living on, he hadn't paid the right council tax for it.

Right, that's all for this extra lungo episode of Newscast.

Chris, thank you very much.

Ta.

And Faisal, Merry Christmas.

Thank you.