Ian Dale

Wes Streeting's best chance is if there is a very quick leadership contest.

He...

I think a lot of Labour people will hope for some sort of coronation.

That's not going to happen.

West Streeting is seen as a Blairite on the right of the Labour Party, and there'll be a lot of enemies that will try and stop him.

Angela Rayner has a huge problem in her tax affairs.

still haven't been sorted out.

So I can't see how she can run until HMRC, His Majesty's Revenue and Customs, until they have cleared her tax affairs and she's repaid what she owes.

Because, I mean, if she did run and win without that having done, and then they do come down on her like a ton of bricks, well, then she would have to go as well.

And we're in this sort of doom loop of leadership crises yet again in this country.

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.