Keir Starmer

If you want to challenge me, then put a challenger in front of me and I will fight that person.

But at the moment, there are 80 people in his party who are saying versions of...

We don't think you're good enough.

We don't think you were lost.

We don't want you to fight the next election.

And we think you should go.

But what they're not all saying is, here's the alternative.

Here's the person that we all support.

And here's the date we want you to go.

And I think that level of chaos and confusion and sort of, you know, mixed messaging in a way is giving Keir Starmer for now the courage or the stubbornness to say, I'm just not moving.

And I guess that is where Starmer really has a point, right?

Because, you know, there is a Labour Party which is frankly looking balkanised without him.

There are factions that want to pull towards Andy Burnham.

There are factions that want to see a sort of Rainer Burnham car.

There are factions that think where Streeting should go and should go now.

And he's the sort of, you know, more to the right of the party, somebody who could act much more quickly because he's in parliament.

And actually, what you suddenly understand about Starmer is it's not what he stood for ideologically.

It's the fact that he was the sticking plaster to the party.

He got the party into a position where it was elected because anyone could paint what they thought he might represent on top of him.

He glued it together.