Coco Kahn

But did you know that it's the effect of three quarters of voters view him unfavourably?

One Labour frontbencher told Politico he had bought time, but it is still terminal.

Yeah, it is astonishing.

That's such a good word that he would release these messages thinking that it would show the public what a great guy he is and to get ahead of any essential people finding out that he was in a text exchange.

I just find it absolutely shocking and such a misfire.

There is a part of me that cannot believe that as we are now going to discuss the potential leadership candidates, that there's only one woman whose name that we are actually properly mentioning.

Because underlying all of this, despite the way that this Epstein Files is being covered, you know, in terms of the political machinations, I mean, it's about crimes against women and girls.

And look, I have my reservations about, you know...

identity politics and the sort of broad brushstrokes that it applies.

But it's not that much of a logical leap to think maybe the Labour Party should have a woman leader.

Maybe that would be a good idea, actually, given everything that's gone on.

And the fact that they haven't until now really tells you something about the problems within the party of letting women leaders arise.

The candidate that is the favourite is Ed Miliband.

But he is very clear to say that he doesn't actually want to do it.

So here he is talking to Sky News' Sophie Ridge.

It sounds a little bit like this is your own leadership pitch.

Absolutely baloney.

He's quite clear about it.

Having said that, though, Nish, we spoke to Andy Burnham on this podcast, I mean, probably over a year ago now, and he was like, no, no, no, no, I'm not interested in that.

No, no, no, no, I'm not interested in that.