Laura Kuenssberg

I'm very sad and I'm very sorry.

And I expect that my successor, in order to get on with the business of government, will be here by the end of this parliamentary session, i.e.

in like three weeks' time.

We don't know which one of those options he will pick.

I think the other question is there's going to be a big bun fight inside the parliamentary Labour Party about whether or not there should be a contest.

So Keir Starmer will sort of set out the architecture, I suppose,

But the PLP is also going to have a big say.

And he is in the mix to be getting a big job in the Burnham camp.

So, look, there are all sorts of conversations going on about who might get what job if you make it in.

But I just want to share with you some informed speculation, I'll say,

Not direct, I'm not about to read you a text from Andy Burnham, but I am just going to refer to some things that I've been told about some of the discussions about possible jobs.

Okay, here we go.

So still a debate around whether or not Edmund Mann should be Chancellor.

Very interesting that Sharon Graham, powerful boss of the Labour's biggest financial backer, United Union, has said that can't happen.

Because of net zero.

And they're very unhappy about how he's run the energy department.

But there's still a debate around that.

Andy Burnham is suggested to have made a deal with Ed Miliband some time ago that he could be chancellor if he tried to force Keir Starmer out in May.

Of course, Ed Miliband didn't manage to force Keir Starmer out in May.

He didn't try, but maybe Andy Byron thinks, well, you didn't deliver it, so I'm not going to give you the job.