Emma Barnett

It's arrogant.

I'm just saying it's a different question to what you're saying.

The thing is now, and this is why I think what Burnham does is so important, is that in a weird way...

You know, all week in the last few weeks, we've been talking about the idea that different factions of the Labour Party who want to displace Keir Starmer have different kind of incentives on the timetable for doing so.

It's always been the case.

We say, well, West Streeting has an incentive to go more quickly because Burnham's not in Parliament.

Angela Rayner, HMRC investigation again.

You know, Burnham obviously wants a longer timetable.

Now you've basically got all of those factions.

From the right of the party to West Streeting, the soft left and the left all now united on one position.

And this includes West Streeting now, which is the prime minister must set out a timetable.

So my question is, is that given that is clearly now the overwhelming, I think.

opinion of the parliamentary Labour Party, certainly a clear majority anyway.

How long can the prime minister resist that effort to set out a timetable?

I mean, last night we were told, you know, one of the stars of the new intake, Josh McAllister, you know, very widely respected young MP, literally going up to the prime minister in the House of Commons saying, prime minister, one of his ministers, you have to set out a timetable.

Why haven't you done so?

Keir Starmer can run from that for a while, but he can't hide from it.

Yeah, and he's claiming once again, predictably enough, that this is a sort of media witch hunt and that there are no questions answered.

It's all been absolutely satisfactorily accounted for.

But, you know, it is one thing and quite an extraordinary thing.