Lucy Fisher

Obviously, the Iran inflation shock and what that's done to push up the price of fuel, food, energy bills, that has been a really difficult pinch point.

Well, it's a really good question why and how the UK's traditional two-party system is being broken apart.

And we're seeing this multi-party system.

I think on the right, reform have really seized the issue of migration.

And while Labour has managed to bring down overall net migration when it comes to legal migration, I think there's a sense from some voters that the established options have been tried and failed.

And then on the left, many more progressive voters in the UK,

feel very unhappy at Labour's approach on Gaza and to Israel.

They wanted to see much firmer condemnation of Israel and standing up for Gaza, which the Greens are doing.

So it's populist policy solutions and very effective communicators leading these parties that I think is making the big difference here.

This is really fascinating stuff.

Well, look, there's been a lot of antipathy between Donald Trump and Keir Starmer.

And the latest raft of that has stemmed largely from what the US president sees as the UK's insufficient support for its war with Israel against Iran.

the UK not allowing the US to use British bases to launch the initial strikes against the Tehran regime.

And since then, we've heard Trump lashing out at the UK, suggesting that he might withdraw US support for British sovereignty in the Falkland Islands.

Trump has been attacking Starmer very personally, saying he's no Churchill.

And those attacks have scaled up in recent weeks.

Well, that's right.

We got hold of a tape of remarks from earlier this year from Christian Turner, the new UK ambassador to the US.

He also criticized the U.S.

for what he perceives as a lack of accountability for the associates of Jeffrey Epstein in the whole scandal around the convicted sex offenders' crimes.