Lewis Goodall

Let's call Diane Abbott up, see if she wants to stand.

Now, I think we should get David back from New York, find a by-election for him to fight as well.

And then we could... But I guess that is the question.

Yeah, but I think against that, there are an awful lot of people who really...

I dislike Keir Starmer with an intensity that I find hard to understand, given that basically he is a decent guy.

He's not ideological.

Well, I thought that showed itself with the Ollie Robbins sacking.

But I think that perception, all I'm saying is that I think in the country, there is a profound dislike of Keir Starmer that seems to be slightly out of proportion to, you know, what his public image is, which is as a sort of, you know, bland managerial... Technocrat.

Or is all that ripped up?

All to be decided.

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So in other news at Westminster this morning, because amazingly, there is other stuff going on apart from Labour's psychodrama.

And it's that the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner has announced that he's launching an inquiry into whether the Reform UK leader, Nigel Farage, and Member of Parliament for Clacton,

broke Commons rules by trousering five million quid and not declaring it before he became an MP.

I mean, what has the world come to where you can't even take a humble little five million quid gift and have to tell someone about it?

And he does have a lot of personal security.

I don't think Clacton would be that favourable for Andy Burnham.

I mean, rather than talking about what the rules are and whether they were broken or not, the politics of this, as I see it playing out, is that Farage will play from the Trump handbook that it's people trying to gang up on me.

And, you know, it's victimization.