Luke Tryl

As I said, the prime minister feels that as well.

And then there's the politics around all of this, which is that if you are the prime minister and you are looking at a big set of elections around Great Britain, two weeks on Thursday and postal votes landing on people's doormats from now on.

and you've managed to spend at least the last couple of weeks without the words Lord and Mandelson featuring very much on newscast and everywhere else, and then suddenly it bursts back, and it's not because it's the next deluge of documents, which also may well come in the next couple of weeks, which we knew about, we just don't know quite when, but it's something kind of a bit left field.

What?

You know, it's kind of in the file.

What?

And you get another round of the prime minister and others having to explain.

And when you're explaining, you're losing.

Then it's, you know, it's just that sort of sense, I think, from lots of folk within the Labour Party of, look, there's no upsides to this kind of stuff.

Now, how does that kind of coagulate, if at all?

Lots of Labour folk are out and about, you know, knocking on doors and trying to make the case that they're trying to make to the electorate in different parts of England.

britain etc etc parliament crucially at westminster was not sitting on friday so there wasn't that kind of uh petri dish of chit-chat and gossip and gloom uh from labour mps i think crucially adam is not so much does this make those who have been skeptical for some time repeat their skepticism and some of the off the record quotes you might be seeing flying around are folk who are in that category but

But does it move to being people who up until now have been sort of willing to put up with things and come to the conclusion that they're no longer able to, particularly potentially the other side of the elections, given the projections look pretty bleak for Labour?

Now, Chris, before you go, normally on Fridays, Newscast transitions into Electioncast, which you will hear in a second.

And I recorded that with the gang on Thursday afternoon.

But Chris, I thought I'd let you celebrate the return of Remoter Voter.

I thought you were going to say you'd forgotten what it was.

No, well...

Help me and a fellow newscaster who might have a splash of amnesia.

Very smoothly done.