Ian Dale

Well, it is.

I've been watching all of the different cabinet ministers walk into Number 10 Downing Street, all being shouted at by the waiting media.

Is he going to resign?

And the truth is, none of us know.

I think it is possible, it's even likely.

We've had the Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister, Darren Jones, a key ally of his.

doing the morning media round.

And he's had a very hangdog expression.

He wasn't sort of taking the fight to the media.

He was very reflective.

And it seems to me, all the mood music is that

Keir Starmer is going to set out a timetable for his departure.

He's not going to go... If he does resign, he's not going to go immediately because there isn't a ready successor.

So I suspect he will stay in office for several months while the Labour Party has a leadership election.

Well...

If you look at various changes of Prime Minister over the past 10 years, on one occasion there was a coronation where there wasn't a leadership election.

The Conservative Party just decided that they wouldn't have one.

And Rishi Sunak emerged as a successor to Liz Truss.

I don't think that's going to happen here.

The Labour Party normally take about three months to run a leadership election, which in government terms is a huge amount of time.