Julia Hartley-Brewer

I think that's a fool's errand, I really do.

Well, that's the crucial thing, isn't it?

I mean, again, harking back, because there are so many echoes of the 24 general election, him on the front cover, the words change.

And we never really found out really what that change was going to be to.

I mean, I'm still two years in.

I'm still not quite sure what their plan was.

It would transpire after he sacked his chief of staff, Sue Gray, because her job was to come up with a plan for the first 100 days.

But there wasn't a plan.

Now, one of the things that is...

to a certain extent holding the burnham camp back right now there's a lot of talk you know they don't want cabinet ministers to be designing they they want uh the prime minister to sort of come to his own realization uh this incredibly resilient man who's actually just pig-headed and stubborn and arrogant that actually you know you're gonna have to go go with some dignity for the love of god right so the key thing is though if he goes very quickly

Burnham then has to take over very quickly and Burnham doesn't have a plan.

If you watched his speech that he gave after winning last night at three o'clock in the morning, the speech he gave this morning on the stump thanking everybody, there was zero substance.

I mean, nothing, denada, zilch, nothing there at all.

I mean, you could be chasing down policies in the wind for him.

He doesn't have any policies.

And this is the problem with him.

Although he's got a t-shirt, he's got a good head of hair, he's got pretty eyelashes, and he's a nice bloke.

I mean, he's genuinely, he talks human.

He's someone you're quite happy to go to the pub with, whereas the thought of spending five minutes in Keir Starmer's company feels any more normal with horror.

Imagine getting stuck in a lift with him.