Emma Barnett

It's not just briefing and nothing.

If he's got a plan, he will never have a better moment to force the prime minister to accede to it than today.

So it really is over to him.

I think Keir Starmer is Iran right now.

I have to say that we didn't say that about Boris Johnson when he was clinging on, even though his parliamentary authority had gone defying parliamentary convention.

I mean, look,

And many of his MPs are deeply, deeply, will never forgive him for appointing Peter Madison.

And there have been scandal after scandal after scandal.

So, yeah, of course, we can say that maybe Boris Johnson deserved it more.

All I'm saying is both men were defying parliamentary convention, which is that once you lose the confidence of your MPs, you really ought to go and not just cling to the process.

But 80 isn't your MPs.

But we all know that the whips have got

easily way more than you've been saying that all week you've been saying if it's 80 you know it could be three times that but actually on the maths of it as we discussed if if you've got four foreign secretaries that the home secretary's told him senior members of his cabinet have told him he knows that the whips have got at least another 50 or more mps who also want him to go he know look he

He knows the unions, all 11 unions affiliated to the Labour Party have gone.

He knows he's lost the confidence of the parliamentary Labour Party.

He knows he's lost the confidence of the party in the country.

He's clinging to the rule book of the Labour Party because in Keir Starmer's view, unless a coup is filled out in triplicate, it hasn't really happened.

All we're talking about is the tipping point.

Boris Johnson and he are the same in this.

They've both lost the confidence of the commons and they're refusing to go.