Lucy Hough

And he has been speaking this morning saying he insists he's going to press on.

Yes, he looked a bit sad this morning, didn't he?

He looked a bit sad, but privately and perhaps in number 10, this is...

With this slightly strange metaphor of you don't change the pilot while the flight is in motion, which is number one, I don't think really stacks up as a metaphor.

And B is absolutely terrifying for anyone who has a fear of flying.

Like, please change the pilot.

So let's talk about the Greens, because they have had this really symbolic victory that will be a huge victory for them in Hackney.

Zach Bansby has been speaking this morning, obviously very, very excited.

And there's

much more to come in terms of the target seats that they're hoping to win this afternoon.

But Zach Palencia has had a bruising couple of weeks.

There's been some really negative stories about whether he misspoke when he said he was spokesperson for the Red Cross.

He's since admitted he was wrong to say that he was.

There's also been the same sort of issues of anti-Semitism that dogged Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party that have now

dogged Polanski's Green Party in the wake of the Golders Green attack.

Has that had any impact, do you think, on the way people have voted?

And a very, very strong Reform UK vote where a lot of Tories, a lot of Labour voters seem to have made their decision about supporting.

So it feels like, Lexi, from what we've been discussing, that Starmer's bought himself a little bit of time.

But we know that many in his party feel that his days are numbered and it's a question of when, not if.

The name that keeps coming up is Andy Burnham, who was blocked from standing as an MP earlier this year, but has made his ambitions clear that he does intend to find a seat somewhere.