Lewis Goodall

from what he described as the battle for Britain's soul.

But as I said, almost as soon as he had sat down, we had more Labour MPs saying that in one form or another, they felt that the Prime Minister ought to step down, or at the very least,

ought to set out a timetable for his resignation.

And at the time of recording, just gone 2 o'clock on Monday afternoon, more than 50 Labour MPs of just over 400 had in some way indicated that they wanted him to go.

And I think before we get into the specifics, we should just take a step back here, because there had been a lot of received wisdom which had said that, yes, the results were going to be really bad, but, you know, the Labour Party often pulls away from these things.

What we are watching is historically almost unprecedented, really.

The Labour Party, we've got very used to chopping and changing and, you know, Conservative governments changing their leaders.

This is something that the Labour Party has not really ever done, certainly for about 90 years or so.

It never changes its leaders via direct confrontation.

Sometimes over time, they're slowly pressured out bit by bit.

But for us to basically see a conservative style push, particularly for not just a Labour leader, but for a Labour prime minister.

Yes, it's happening slowly, bit by bit.

Yes, it's happening gingerly in that very Labour formalistic way.

But it is happening and it is highly, highly, historically speaking, unusual.

Unusual.

Yeah, I think the Prime Minister made two big mistakes over the course of the last 72 hours.

One was to allow the sort of speculation about the speech to build up.

You know, as soon as you're into make or break speech territory, it's always break.

Nearly always break.

Certainly for most politicians.