Geri Scott

Because what we're seeing is this kind of redistribution of voting patterns, a real move into multi-party politics that we haven't had in such a way in these elections before.

But you are getting some really, frankly, weird voting patterns.

You know, I spoke to people before they went to the polls who were kind of weighing up voting between green and reform.

And you would, you know, think that that is not right.

necessarily the choice that you're trying to make.

So people are voting in very strange ways, not necessarily on the issues, but also on a kind of plague on all your houses type approach.

So it's a very, very difficult election to analyse.

That's right.

And, you know, I think, you know, that makes it even harder to kind of predict.

And it also means that what we're going to see is a lot of kind of no overall control councils where, you know, you might have a largest party, but not necessarily taking that full control.

So we're moving into an era of talking about pacts, coalitions and how that is going to work is going to be fascinating.

Yeah, look, I think this is a tricky question because it's not as easy in Labour to get rid of a leader as it is in the Conservative Party.

You know, if you're a Conservative MP, you chuck in a letter of no confidence.

You don't have to kind of think about who might come next.

The process can just start.

Whereas in the Labour Party, you have to coalesce behind a person and it makes it difficult.

a lot more difficult.

I don't think we're going to see a leadership challenge this weekend, although, you know, I wouldn't put a bet on it because I've been wrong before.

I'm sure I'll be wrong again.

But these things can move very quickly when they start to move.