Laura Kuenssberg

Once we get past a couple of months, if indeed Burnham is in charge, I think we just do not know how it's going to unfold.

And as we were talking about yesterday, Paddy, that conversation I had with somebody in a senior position in government yesterday,

It's a bit of a sort of thought experiment.

You know, the government has not been performing well in some areas.

Of course, they would say they've got waiting lists down, immigration has come down and all those things.

But the public thinks that the government has not been effective.

If you basically change not very much about the government's performance, but you have a much more charismatic, likable person at the top, does that or does that not change how the public feels about those who represent them?

Maybe it does.

Maybe people feel a bit more cheered up because you have a different person who comes along and talks about hope and talks about optimism and doesn't wear a shirt and tie all the time.

I want to know when he is going to wear a shirt and tie, though.

If he ends up walking into Downing Street this week, is he going to do it in a black T-shirt?

Gazelles?

Gazelles at the lectern.

I'm just intrigued as to at what point does the centrist dad garb come off and the head teacher garb go on?

Come on, we've been talking about politics every weekend for like three years now.

You're talking, oh yeah, I don't know anything.

And in the other way, Andy Burnham and his wife and kids have also been on a mini break this weekend somewhere in a mystery location.

What's on their mind?

Their lives are about to change in all sorts of profound ways if his plan comes off.

We're recording at 12 minutes past 11 on Sunday.