Lewis Goodall

He never managed serious inroads in Scotland, a bit in Wales, but not really.

If you go back further than that as well, the SDP never managing to achieve anything like this.

As a breakthrough force, we haven't seen anything like this before.

But as I say, UKIP never managed to achieve anything like it.

And you're right.

In a sense, what you can sort of say is it is true to say that reform are doing better in Brexit voting areas.

You can say sort of in a way that politics is kind of local government maybe is catching up to that realignment, perhaps.

But let's be clear.

Even in Jeremy Corbyn's nadir, even in his worst years, he wasn't losing seats like this.

At the height of the Brexit process, he wasn't going backwards like this.

I'm afraid if you talk to people who've been out on the doorstep and you talk to Labour people privately, sometimes publicly...

They'll all say the same thing, fairly or unfairly.

And some of it is unfair.

No question.

Some of it is more deserved.

Keir Starmer, for whatever reason, is despised by the public of this country, by much of the population.

He is despised.

He is a massive electoral liability.

And the Labour Party have to basically make a decision.

Do they want to stop a reform government or don't they?