Laura Kuenssberg
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financial and in sort of policy terms, disruption are real.
They're real.
Well, there's no love lost between them.
I mean, there have been some suggestions, oh, make him foreign secretary because he's good at the stuff on the world stage.
I think that their relationship is going to be pretty curdled by all of this.
There's a little wrinkle because always in politics, people have long memories.
And in 2015, as a bright-eyed new MP, Keir Starmer backed Andy Burnham to become the Labour leader.
In 2020, even though it looked like Keir Starmer was going to win pretty straightforwardly, Andy Burnham only backed him at the very last minute.
So there are troubled waters under the bridge here.
And I find it hard to see that Keir Starmer would be up for it.
But look, you never know.
And in a way, it would be a neat thing, would it not?
But then what do you do with Yvette Cooper?
If he wants to create stability, maybe leave Yvette Cooper as Foreign Secretary.
I don't know.
He's been in his current job quite a long time.
David Miliband, he's been there for a while.
I don't know.
I don't know.
But it would seem surprising because there is bad blood between the two of them.