Laura Kuenssberg

And on Friday, people were saying to me things like...

Well, it's fantastic that he got 21,500 votes.

Really?

But Keir Starmer has a mandate of many million voters.

Which is true.

Which is absolutely true.

Two years ago.

And one thing that Labour MPs, some Labour MPs are desperately worried about

is if he gets in and he ends up in number 10, before too long, opposition parties can start calling for a general election.

Well, maybe on day one, although reform might do that because they like those big, bold, primary colours kind of campaigning, but they're not ready for a general election.

The Conservatives don't want a general election now because they're not ready for a general election either.

And they believe that Kemi Badenoch's sort of on a bit of an upswing.

But they wouldn't want a general election now when they're still miles behind.

But look, we'll see.

I mean, Labour MPs would not want there to be a general election.

I mean, it was that coalition that was stretched so far because they just wanted to be sure that they won.

So they did this sort of quite... They travelled light, didn't have much in the manifesto, ruled out all sorts of things...

because they wanted to get literally as many bums on seats as possible in Parliament.

There's a retrospective debate about whether they should have accepted that they'd have had a smaller majority, but had a much more compelling programme and had the balls to say, we'll put up some taxes or something like that.

But there's no point in having that debate now.