Keir Starmer

He is the missing voice in all this.

You know, he's barely been seen.

He hasn't had his meeting with Starmer.

You know, he's the man who, as far as we know, everyone is expecting to act, expecting to hear from.

And who knows by the time you're listening to this, maybe that will have changed.

But so far as we're recording at 20 past two, we've heard nothing.

What all those comments after cabinet had in common was that they told us that the meeting in cabinet was not about the leadership context, not about the 80.

It was about the war in Iran.

It was about the cost of living.

It was about energy.

And as you've heard, they all want to get on with the job.

And I think that speaks to two things.

One, that Keir Starmer clearly opened that meeting by saying, right, we're not talking about that.

We've got to get on and govern.

And there is probably an imperative for those round the cabinet table.

not to look like they are part of a psychodrama.

So, of course, they want to say, you know, in the interest of the country, I'm still going to Brussels.

I'm still looking at this.

I'm still trying to bring down the cost of living.

We should say, you know, in parentheses that the guilt yields have already shot up to a 10 year high just on the back of this instability.