Laura Kuenssberg
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However, look, Keir Summer is somebody who his allies would say that he is principally driven by duty and wanting to serve the country.
So look, if he was asked to be foreign secretary, maybe he would go for it because what else is he going to do apart from, you know, maybe want to disappear for a while and read books and breathe fresh air and
you know, hang out with his family.
But, you know, he's a man in his early 60s.
He's somebody, of course, who's managed to get to the highest office in the land.
He's somebody with great capabilities and a huge range of experience.
So is he going to go to the back benches?
But I think it's hard to see.
But look, stranger things have happened in the last 10 years in this country.
So we just don't know.
You're going to have a lot of reason to do mockery, which is a big part of politics.
And you're going to have lots of reasons to chuck jibes around like two-year care.
And it's going to be really fun politically for the opposition parties for a while.
After a period, though, it's completely unknown as to how it progresses.
So Andy Burnham is someone who the public like more, a lot more than they do Keir Starmer.
Therefore, in one sense, that makes him automatically a tougher opponent.
That said, we've got no idea if he gets into number 10, if he's going to run an effective administration or not.
We've got absolutely no idea.
So I think in the kind of short term, yeah, the opposition parties have got lots and lots of ammunition to chuck around.
Of course they do.