Lewis Goodall

I mean, we might end up in a weird classic kind of like Westminster media kind of flurry kind of way where, but we get to the end of the week and maybe things feel like they're going back to the status quo ante.

I do think, though, something is changing, which is, I think, as a result of what we're seeing today over the weekend, I think it is becoming clearer and clearer that Starmer's authority...

over the parliamentary Labour Party is now ebbing to a point where it is clearly just not sustainable, even in the short to medium term.

Well, yes, indeed.

And I think, you know, for a fact that if 50 are public, then you can probably at least triple that number.

with people who are on the ministerial payroll and others who, if push came to shove and they were asked to declare, if they were forced to declare in a contest, it's different from sort of just sitting in the trenches.

But if you're forced to go and fight and choose a side, then they will choose someone else.

I mean, when I saw today that Chris Curtis, who has been a Starmerite,

for, you know, a Starmer loyalist who's chair of the Labour Growth Group, which comprise of 100 MPs, says that Starmer had to go and there needs to be a change of leadership.

I thought that that was... That is someone who is not a usual suspect and is a reasonably, I would say, median member, particularly of the kind of 2024 intake, which is a very large...

When I saw that, I thought that is just a straw in the wind and indicator of a wider trend, which is just showing that we get to the end of this week.

And although Starmer might still be in place, it really feels to me now like his days are numbered in office.

As I say, I think it comes down to a lot of Labour MPs.

They agree with the Prime Minister.

They know that it can't be incremental change.

They agree with him that they don't need spreadsheets.

They need a story.

But they see a man, a leader who who just says that who.

Well, and it is more spreadsheet than story and whose whole politics fundamentally is incremental improvement.

And he himself has set that challenge, set that yardstick that he probably can't meet.