Keir Starmer

He held it together.

And as soon as the starmer plasters ripped off, what you actually see is under the stone, all the various directions the Labour Party could now pull in.

Yeah.

And Jess Phillips' letter really made that case very starkly.

I'll read you one line.

She says,

to that exact point in other words the Jess Phillips style of of governing really or of of campaigning has been tell people what you feel show them your passion show them you care show them where it really hurts and then do something about it and back to the sticking plaster position Starmer basically sort of wants things to be calm you know sort of

I mean, this is the point of incrementalism, isn't it?

You won't see me moving, you know, and people have said, we don't see you moving and we don't see any choice.

Look, I think to the factualism point, this is where it gets really interesting because Wes Streeting, you know, as you've described, is in a sort of, he's in a choose your own adventure children's book now, right, where...

Go to page 56.

Go to page 56.

Do you launch your bid to be prime minister?

Go to page 56.

But you might lose your job forever and be out of government.

Game over.

Or do you show your loyalty, turn to page 37, but risk ceding ground to Andy Burnham?

You can see that for West Streeting, everything is resting on it.

And he wants to be the loyal sort of foot soldier, the person who steps up rather than the person who wields the knife.

But just last night, Alex Wickham from Bloomberg was reporting this kind of threat, essentially, on the part of what he calls the soft left, that if Wes Streeting did trigger a leadership context, he would not be safe.