Chris Mason

He's always made the argument that whilst he is prepared for a leadership crisis,

He would do it at a point where he felt that the kind of government of Keir Starmer was unsalvageable or you reached a point where there was a contest that was happening anyway.

And now what is unsalvageable is in the eye of the beholder.

But the prime minister's view, very much so, is we're cracking on.

Be interesting to see.

and maybe it's happened by the time newscasters are listening to this conversation, him appoint new ministers to replace those who have resigned.

They were very speedy on Monday night announcing the new ministerial aides, parliamentary private secretaries, to replace those ministerial aides who had resigned.

So who's going to get the various gigs around government who have resigned?

resigned because that's, if you like, an act of defiance, an act of a desire to continue and crack on.

And meanwhile, West Streeting, Andy Burnham, any others have to work out how things look and the kind of political lie of the land.

And what will happen on Wednesday morning in advance of the state opening of

parliament is the prime minister and west streeting are going to meet now that's happening because various ministers asked to see the prime minister after the cabinet meeting this morning which talked about lots of things but not this and the prime minister wasn't up for it then it's in that context that he's seeing mr streeting in the morning and then you wonder what happens after that there's likely because there's lots of things that mean this might not be a high noon moment

I mean, completely.

And at the moment, what you've got, you've got 400, roughly 400 Labour MPs.

And very roughly, you've got 100-ish saying he should, the Prime Minister should go.

You've got 100-ish publicly saying, no, he shouldn't.

And then you've got 200-ish, quite a few who are in government themselves, who are not saying anything.

And you do have, and we've heard it through the 100 who've signed a letter saying, please not now.

some who are just exasperated, who hate the idea of having to go back to their patches and defend what people might say is kind of chaos.

Significantly.