Lucy Hough

So what does that contest, if it happens at all, look like next month?

Yeah, but Andy Burnham, it's a hugely high stakes time for him, isn't it?

Yeah, because you've got three weeks at newly voted as an MP of Makerfield and you really cannot make any missteps, can you, in the next few weeks in a way that might ire, stammer loyalists who feel that this has all been done too hastily.

It definitely will be.

But crucially, the role of Chancellor seems up for grabs and there's been lots of discussion over the weekend, hasn't there, about speculation on that.

I mean, Rachel Reeves, it's been reported, was very keen to hang on to her job and has kept a relatively low profile in politics.

recent weeks.

Her absence outside Number 10 was very notable this morning, given that there were other people like David Lammy, the Deputy Prime Minister, and Darren Jones, Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister outside, you know, key allies of his, as Reeves has been for so long.

But it seems unlikely that Burnham, should he win this, keep Reeves in position.

And there are a number of names being floated, aren't there?

Yeah, there's been some quite major pushback already over the weekend, hasn't there?

The head of Unite said that this would be a noose around the neck of job creation should Miliband be appointed Chancellor.

Yeah, change, but not too much change.

And so what does that mean for Keir Starmer in particular?

Because his voice broke as he spoke of his desire now to just focus on being a husband to Vic and a father to his two very beloved children.

That's when his voice broke.

But he didn't specify whether he intends to continue as an MP or indeed if he's looking for a cabinet position.

What do we know just lastly about that, Peter?

Yeah.

You never know, Peter.