Julia Hartley-Brewer

And he's doing it, as I say, with the same backbenchers and with the same fiscal constraints.

And realistically, what can he get done when the things that most need to be done, the things that the majority of people who, frankly, paying any attention at all, no need to be done, spending on defence, cutting welfare, dropping net zero are things that I think we can be very, very sure he's not going to be able or willing to do.

The fact that Ed Miliband has been touted as a likely candidate for being Andy Bonham's chancellor, I think is a bit of a giveaway there.

Andy Miliband is a climate hysteric zealot.

He makes Greta look moderate and normal on this issue.

He is one of the main reasons why we are, you know, we are heading, you know,

into oblivion when it comes to our energy policy, industrial policy, our inability to pay for defence.

It's a massive national security issue now, the net zero issue.

Anyone paying attention knows that that was always an insane policy.

It's a particularly insane policy, given the current global situation that we're in right now, threats from Russia, China... Can I just pick up on that?

Yeah, I mean, that's the thing.

And look, I want to make it very clear.

I like Andy Burnham.

He's a really nice bloke.

He's someone you can actually spend time with.

And I think his heart is probably in the right place.

I mean, all politicians are ambitious, aren't they?

But as you say, I don't think, and I'm not 100% sure right now we have anyone in any party that has both...

the view, the beliefs and the drive and the ability to push those through, but also to create the coalition, the wider coalition to make that happen in our very sort of, you know, His Majesty's government, the opposition dynamic we've got in parliament, because I think that is very, very difficult.

We do need, I mean, almost, you know, a national unity government to deal with all the big stuff, to say, look,