Derek Mooney

Simon Harris and Micheál Martin in particular.

You can understand to a certain degree because if you're a Taoiseach or a Tánaiste, you're basically, every government department has sent up a message or every minister, because it's a political speech in fairness, so it's not the department's doing it, has a message to get across.

So there's a shopping list.

And that's very, very hard to fit in.

You're better off having one overarching message.

And in the case of the speech at Congress, there was one overarching message, which is we are your closest friends.

We are your best allies.

You should be listening to us a bit more.

And if you have a core message, then everything else can flow out from that.

Well, I think it's merely the confirmation of what most people know.

And I am sure Keir Starmer wasn't thrilled to have that said around the place.

But I think a lot of people in Britain just know this is the case.

Exactly.

And he knows what he's doing.

It's also very interesting, which is it's very old-fashioned in a way because he had a lector in front of him.

His speech was typewritten.

It was on pages.

He was flipping the pages one after the other.

Now we're so used to seeing autocue, we're so used to seeing big screens, etc.

It was very interesting to see that.