Lewis Goodall

Obviously, we don't know if Burnham has or hasn't got his seat.

We don't know if Ware's will or won't challenge.

We don't know if Angela Rayner, who has just come forward and say, I've cleaned up the tax affairs.

I'm fine.

I could go for it.

That's fine.

It's all in the ether.

But nobody's taken him on.

Because you can't be a general, you can't lead from behind.

Look, I got a message on Monday, i.e.

four days ago, at 9.20 in the morning from a team, Wes, just saying,

If Wes doesn't go today, he doesn't have the numbers, right?

So there were people around him who thought that he would come up with the numbers by lunchtime on Monday.

And the fact that we are still talking about it on Thursday and the fact that, frankly, of those 81 or whatever that...

signed up to the sort of the anti-Keyer numbers that we got earlier this week, that tells you everything you need to know, because there would be many more if 81 of those were just West Streeting alone.

Right.

So I think, look, maybe he still throws his hand and we don't know.

You know, we've said on this podcast that we are all hostage to fortune because things happen the whole time.

And sometimes they're not the thing that you thought were going to happen at that exact moment.

But as things stand, we've got a health secretary who has resigned from his job as health secretary on the day that not only are the health figures looking like one of the most remarkable things for the government, but the economy, the figures in the economy, the GDP have just come out showing the UK at the top of the G7 table on 0.6%.