Lewis Goodall

Another reason for Keir Starmer to actually feel, well, this is not actually a bad week.

so far.

No, he puts Andy into the Lords and then makes him the health secretary.

Yeah, but it's bought him time.

I mean, that's the point.

Yeah, maybe.

You know how long a by-election can take.

I mean, he needs to find the seat.

They need to move the writ, you know, plan the day, all the rest of it.

Sort out what's going to happen in Manchester, sort out what's going to happen to the contest for the Merrilty as well.

I mean, that could take him to September, October, right?

It could buy him the summer.

It could buy him space to see what he can do in that time.

And that's probably enough for Starmer right now.

My nuclear proliferation has been shot down.

I agree.

I mean, whether or not you think that he is politically the best person to take Labour into the next election, there is a steeliness this week, which I think is quite admirable.

There is something that we've seen.

Yes, and I think it's relevant that that came after a parliamentary ethics inquiry into his actual behaviour, into his...

lying to Parliament, his misleading Parliament.