Lewis Goodall

Because on the basis of all the evidence we have, Keir Starmer is not the man to do it.

But they're in a burning building right now.

They're in a burning building and they're going to burn and die within that building.

So the choice is, do you grab the hose and give yourself a chance?

That's the question the Labour Party, can it be bothered?

Is it willing to simply acquiesce, acquiesce to defeat?

Because that is what the Labour Party does far too often.

They basically accept because they do not very often have the guts, because they do not have the will to power that the Conservative Party does.

But at this point, anyone would be.

But what is the vision?

We had some briefing overnight saying the Prime Minister is going to prove himself to be less technocratic and less legalistic.

I mean, I'm sorry, a phrase about old dogs and new tricks comes to mind.

Keir Starmer is who he is.

He's a man in his 60s who is a lawyer and he's been a leader of the Labour Party since 2020.

Does the Labour Party in its soul, in its heart of hearts, in its bones, really believe that he has another gear, another mode, that he has something else to say?

Or are they going to confront the fact that, as I say, fairly or unfairly,

Much of this country, much of the historic Labour base does not want him to remain as prime minister.

I think we had this discussion this time last year.

And I said then, I thought that...

Look, I know that we'd like to think that, you know, there's going to be all this scrutiny of reform in local government and that that's going to somehow reveal to the public that they won't like them after all.