Matt Forde

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Hello and welcome to Strong Message here from BBC Radio 4, a guide to the use and abuse of political language.

I'm Matt Ford, and before you panic, I haven't travelled down on an Avanti West Coast to stage a coup.

Armando is under the weather this week, so I'm stepping into hosting duties.

I have to admit, I'm a little under the weather myself with World Cup fever, which has been slightly tempered by England's performance against Ghana.

This week, I'm joined by Ria Lina.

Do you know what?

It's some sort of startup sporting tournament.

I don't think it's going to catch on.

The phrase we're going to look at this week is a swift transition.

Minister Nick Thomas-Simons has called for one, so we're going to look into what he means by that and cast our eye over the language of Starmer's tenure and the rhetorical traits of the potentially incoming Andy Burnham.

So this idea of a swift transition.

After the local elections, there was a bit of a debate about whether we needed a swift...

or an orderly transition.

The code for Swift basically meant Wes, orderly meant Andy.

Now, Andy is in the Swift transition group, and Wes has run in behind Andy, but both Wes and Andy use the phrase, we don't want to spend the summer exaggerating our small differences.

So, Ria, do you think this is all basically a pretense to avoid a mess?

No.

But they might not want a divisive leadership contest won in government.

They both like casual clothing.