Dominic Sandbrook

Okay, but they would presumably be in favour of these cuts.

Yeah.

They're putting party ahead of country.

But if the government wins the vote in a kind of Tory right of the Labour Party alliance,

then that's very bad for the government.

I'm just playing four-dimensional chess here in a way that clearly Mrs. Thatcher wasn't.

Yeah, well, I mean, you know, he may have got the top economics degree at Oxford in its history, but he's not as shrewd a political operator as me.

Or have you just cherry picked them?

No, I cherry picked them, of course.

Because there must be some people who... Yeah.

Particularly, they're working for the council from Durham.

There must be some people working in councils in Durham who like the left.

Hello, everyone, and welcome back to The Rest Is History, where Harold Wilson has resigned.

British politics is in tumult.

What happens next, Dominic?

It's like, is it Meta Nick when Talleyrand died?

And he said, I wonder what he means by that.

Yeah, I imagine that's why we're not shedding listeners to this episode in any way in the Sydney in New York.

I just wonder whether it's expressive of a kind of mental decline as well.

You see, I love a topic on The Rest Is History where you get to have the phrase Gannocks raincoat tycoon.