Mark Paul

I think Labour, the Labour Party will get together and try and find some way to get Burnham back because they will want to have him back there in time for their party conference in Liverpool in September.

That's if I was a betting man.

But listen, every horse I've ever bet on is still running, so I wouldn't worry about that.

It's possible.

I mean, I think what these elections, you wouldn't know it from all of the hype from after the elections.

But I think these elections have proved that reform have probably just come slightly off their peak.

It's very hard to project a national vote share in Britain out of local elections in England.

But it looks like it will be a tiny bit down on where they were a year ago.

But they would still be, if there was an election tomorrow, they would still be by far the largest party.

And, you know, barring some sort of an anti-reform coalition, whether that was Labour or the Lib Dems or whoever it might happen to be, Nigel Farage would be best placed to be prime minister.

But all of the energy, all of the money, all of the best organisation, quite frankly, at the moment in British politics is in Reform UK.

And it just looks increasingly like Keir Starmer is just the knife that the Labour Party have brought to a gunfight with Reform UK.

And Farage seems to be armed to the teeth, you know.

Yes.

I mean, politics at the moment, whether it's in Britain or whether it's in America, it likes big moments and big narratives and big stories and big personalities to tell them.

And Keir Starmer is definitely not that.

I mean, he represents a kind of an incrementalist and technocratic mentality.

sort of managerialism in politics.

And that's the sort of thing that basically electorates at the moment are throwing out.

They want stories almost not quite of revolution, but certainly of radical change.