Lewis Goodall

They did.

And they went somewhere else.

So there's bad political strategy from the beginning.

But it's more than that.

Honestly, I think it is about Keir Starmer.

It is about the man.

You know, sometimes we talk about this guy as if he's Atticus Finch or something.

That he's a man of sort of pure integrity and pure self-interest and pure sort of interest of the Labour Party.

Let's be honest, right?

If the Labour Party cared about its survival...

and it cared about keeping reform out, they would be moving hell and high water right now to get Andy Burnham a seat in Parliament, the most popular Labour politician in the country, and either giving him a very senior role or giving him the whole damn show.

scrutiny.

I'm not one, as we know, we talked about a lot, you know, to say, oh, it's always the media.

You can blame the media for all Labour's problems, sort of in a way it was ever thus.

But my word, I mean, the relative paucity of scrutiny about this, you know, when we think we had two months talking about a pair of bloody glasses and some suits or whatever happened to be a star, which actually so much of the rot, you still get voters talking about it now.

Freebiegate, they're taking freebies and whatever.

And then we discover and all of those, by the way, they were declared.

They were declared.

And we had this five million, which, you know, I mean, I was asking

reformed spokesperson after reformed spokesperson last night on the election show.