John Curtice

Labour and those around Starmer...

argued that the Conservatives no longer had a democratic mandate because the public had voted for Conservatives under Boris Johnson in 2019, not for trust.

Those calls for a general election became even louder after the mini-budget.

When she resigned, Starmer said the Conservative Party has shown it no longer has a mandate to govern.

He demanded a general election.

So let's just fast forward to this place where the something-must-be-done brigade get rid of Starmer, right?

It is entirely possible that changing the personnel at the top of the party does fuck all.

Right.

Because there isn't somebody with a massively new vision that's coming in.

There isn't even a Burnham in a position where he can lead.

There's lots of people around Starmer who frankly sound quite similar to him.

or would take the party in a way that actually might even help reform.

But more important even than that is the fact that they will then get calls from every single party leader saying, well, if you think Keir Starmer had the mandate, which was what you said about Boris Johnson in 2019, then...

Bring on the general election.

And they'll ignore it.

And then they get into this cycle of, well, we can't trust you.

Well, you're the party.

Well, you said that.

Well, you're the hypocrites.

They start on exactly the same process to self-destruction as Liz Truss.