Chris Mason

In other words, someone who says, you know, sign up to my cause and we will publicly say we have met the threshold for there to be a leadership challenge.

challenge, not least because Catherine West has said she is not that person.

But what appears to be happening as we record is a gathering momentum of Labour MPs, including, as we say, ministerial aides, which is a notch up in the pressure on the Prime Minister saying that he should go.

We're well above 10% now of the Labour Parliamentary Party.

And the thing to watch now, as of Monday evening, is is there a remorseless momentum to those public calls where it gets to the point that it is simply unsustainable for the prime minister because his authority is clearly shattered?

That's what we seem to be looking at now.

And of course, the other thing that might happen in the context of this continuing to happen, MPs continuing to say he should set a timetable to resign or he should resign, is that it could create space for a candidate to conclude that it's ripe to go over the top with their own list of candidates.

81 MPs.

Some of who might already be publicly out there, others who might not be.

And then you're into a scenario of there being a contest.

Yes, it

Yes, you'd have thought so, outwardly.

But with the expectation that were he to be in it, then you would have perhaps Angela Rayner, who knows who else, seeking to contest it too.

The other element of it which is interesting is...

Is there – let's see how things play out and things are moving so, so, so quickly.

But if you had a scenario where – and the prime minister, of course, has not gone anywhere near this.

In fact, he said the exact opposite.

But in a scenario where the prime minister was willing to set out a timetable and were that timetable longer than being very, very imminent –

it's possible you could have a scenario where, you know, others would try and get back to Parliament very quickly.

I was talking to Clive Lewis today, the Norwich MP, the Labour backbencher.