Keir Starmer

Keir Starmer has defied his critics and told them he's going nowhere.

Is that stubbornness or is it bravery?

Where's Streeting is being asked for comment.

Where's Streeting has said nothing for days.

So is West Streeting at the centre of whatever movement is currently going on?

And is the Prime Minister waiting for him to challenge?

It's Maitlis.

Look, I think the Jess Phillips letter changes this conversation and this whole scenario more than possibly anything else in the last 24 hours.

And we'll come on to analysing a little bit more what she says and the force of her words.

But just to go back to that moment, really, that I think surprised many in Keir Starmer's own party and cabinet today.

This defiance by the Prime Minister himself, which either looks incredibly ballsy or it looks really tin-eared.

And I think, yeah, I mean, I think a lot of people will be saying, I didn't know he had it in him to stick it out.

I don't think that Starmer can be unaware, frankly, of those 80 voices that are saying go or go now or set out a timetable.

But I think there are two things going on.

One is 80 sounds like a huge number until you put it in the context of his majority, which is what, 400 or 403 people.

And you're looking at him saying, well, that's 20 percent.

But look, maybe I owe the 80 something else.

There is 80 percent of my parliamentary party that is not doing that.

And I think there is a certain logic to what he's doing, which is to say, show me the challenger.

Because I don't see the challenger right now.