Kevin Maguire

Whatever happened to Johnson afterwards is another story.

The Conservatives did it when John Major replaced Margaret Thatcher back in the day in 1990.

It's a gamble with no guarantee of winning, but...

There are some in Labour and they're probably only a significant minority.

But as I say, the trade unions have joined those MPs calling for him to go at some point.

They believe it's a gamble, work taking.

Yeah, certainly the pledges are not to raise the rates of income tax, VAT and national insurance.

Well, there was a little TNC applying saying employers rates could be increased, but not employees.

I think they did tie themselves into a knot there because it means they can't get the funds to revitalise public services, which are

was clearly needed.

But Keir Starmer himself, he stood for the Labour leadership and won it as basically Corbyn policies without Jeremy Corbyn, because he believed that's what he needed to do at the time to win the members over.

That worked.

Then he ditched all the policies, went in the general election pretty cautiously.

And although he got an absolutely thumping

majority in Westminster.

He only won 34% of the vote.

That's one in three, two in three people who voted, voted against him.

So it was a huge majority, but very thin fire, shaky foundations.

I think that's just come back to haunt him.

And he's made mistakes you would never have expected, starting with taking winter fuel payments of about £200 away from 10 million pensioners, many of them on very small occupational...