Lewis Goodall

Because they do not think...

They agree with the analysis entirely, but they don't agree with the diagnosis that he is the man to fight that fight.

That precisely because of the contours of this problem, precisely because the stakes are so high, and Labour MPs are terrified about all this.

They're terrified that if they lose the battle over the next 24 to 36 months, that we don't just see a conservative prime minister, you know, the old sort of pendulum swings back.

Do you see something completely different?

Do you see Nigel Farage walking up Downing Street?

And in reminding MPs of just how high those stakes are, he is in fact reminding them that he, of all people, might not be the person to take the fight to them.

And you can hear this sort of rehearsed, this argument again and again.

Angela Rayner, who of course is one of the potential candidates for that job, or for Keir Starmer's job, she happened to be speaking at the CWU union conference today.

Yeah, I think that's exactly right.

I think that's precisely where we are.

I think that the feeling is, is that, look, Wes Streeting, if he wants to try and seize the premiership, then the argument goes that there's not going to be a better time than now.

Right.

Because if you wait, then...

Burnham will find somehow will find his way back into Parliament.

You can see there is clearly a concerted off effort by the soft left of the Labour Party that is being orchestrated.

I'm told from the very highest levels of parts of the Labour government and that one way or the other, there are now the difference between now.

And the last time he tried is that Starmer is that much weaker and Labour MPs are that bit much more scared.

Correct.

And therefore that the sort of analogy, the closest analogy is this is a sort of.