Edward Luce

And I think...

probably as concerned as anybody else in the broader labour movement in Britain about a government that appears to be failing.

It's quite hard under the Labour Party's rules to remove a leader, a prime minister.

Much easier for Conservatives to do it, if you remember Liz Truss, the famous 49-day premiership.

But it looks like he's wobbling.

And I should add that he lost over the weekend his chief strategist and chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney.

He has gone, so he no longer has a strategist.

There is blood in the water, as the cliche goes.

Yes.

I mean, Andrew has become a sort of national sort of symbol of shame and embarrassment and a bit of a joke.

People refer to him as the Andrew formerly known as Prince.

The recent Department of Justice, you know, three million page release.

Andrew's name is all over that.

And so even though he's been deprived of his title and his royal standing and indeed the money that comes with it and the property that comes with it,

It looks like he's got further to fall.

I think the big difference is probably the fact that the president, Donald Trump, seems to have no interest in further revelations or inquiries related to the Epstein files.

Keir Starmer has been forced, in order to try and defend his job, into...

supporting strong London Metropolitan Police criminal investigations into Peter Mandelson for his own political survival, whereas I think it appears that President Trump's instincts are quite the opposite, that he wants to move on, turn the page from the Epstein scandal, allegedly, according to Trump's critics, for his own political survival.

So their instincts are divergent.

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