Jon Sopel

He'll get it done.

He'll get the thing, you know.

He'll push it forward and he'll sort of make everyone feel good about Britain along the way.

And the point about Starmer was that he said, I'm serious.

I'm going to come to you with some home truths about the state of our economy.

But, you know...

Just trust me on this one.

I will clean up politics and I will get it done.

And that is the disappointing thing, right?

That is the... The character.

That's the point that you just don't want your leaders to be blamers.

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Look, I think if you break it down, if you look at it quite closely.

Trump had three options, two of which weren't real options.

So the first option is he threatens to bomb Iran and he has to bomb Iran.

He doesn't really want to bomb Iran because bombing Iran takes you backwards, makes the straightforward moves even further away and actually means that Iran carries on bombing, if not you, then at least all your allies in the Gulf.

So he doesn't really want to bomb Iran.