George Parker
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But we've had David Cameron.
We've had Theresa May.
We've had Boris Johnson.
We've had Liz Truss.
We've had Rishi Sunak.
And now we've had Keir Starmer.
So that's since 2015.
That's the last 10 years.
So that would be six, and we'd be going for a seventh if Star Wars was to be removed.
Yeah, it's starting to look a bit like the manager's chair at Chelsea Football Club, to be honest, Pat.
We are becoming the kind of Italy of... Well, Italy, of course, now is a stable government.
We're becoming what Italy used to be.
And I think that's one of the things that's holding some Labour MPs back, the idea that we've just been through the chaos of the dying days of the Conservative administration.
Do you really want to go back there?
that's holding them back.
They also appreciate that there's an international crisis underway that Keir Starmer's deemed to have handled reasonably well, to be fair to Keir Starmer.
But the thing that's egging them forward is the fact they look at the situation in their backyards and think, my job's up for, my job's going to be gone in a couple of years' time when there's a general election.
To give you an example, Lisa Nandy, who's the culture secretary, she's the MP for Wigan,
The Labour Party lost every single one of the 20-odd seats it was defending in Wigan to Reform UK.
So you can see that there's an awful lot of nervousness and angst around the Labour Party this morning.