Laura Kuenssberg

It might not be pretty, you might not like it, but that's how it's done.

What I want to go back to, though, is your dreadful assertion that women have never got anything to do with politics.

There's a very, very important woman this weekend, Victoria Starmer.

So the prime minister is with his wife at Chequers this weekend.

People who know him well have said to me, he's just desperate to talk to her about it, to make his plan, to absorb, I think, the enormity of what is happening.

And that is what he is doing this weekend.

Andy Burnham is also somewhere in a secret location away with his family.

So I've been kind of entertaining myself with the idea that you've got basically these two middle-aged blokes both on mini bricks with their families while the fate of the country is being decided.

And it's just an extraordinary place that we've got ourselves to actually as a nation.

I mean, it's extraordinary.

It's not just extraordinary because Labour promised they wouldn't do it.

But if you'd said to anyone like 10 years ago, oh, yeah, Britain will have seven prime ministers in a decade, you'd have thought they were off their head.

I mean, it's a completely, I hate the word unprecedented, but I was about to say it.

This is just a massive twist in what has become, our policy has just become this never-ending drama.

Although I think it's important to say, though, too, you know, when Labour politicians castigated the Tories time and time and time again for changing leaders...

There's nothing wrong with changing the leader if the next leader then does well.

Which happened.

It did.

The Tories got rid of Theresa May.

Boris Johnson then won them a massive majority.