Matt Forde

He also said, I know the question being asked now.

Is Doctor Who's best place to change the Labour Party, to take us into power, and to make it the vital work of improving lives for millions of people?

Those questions have been answered.

The question my party is asking now is whether I am best placed to lead us into the next general election.

I have heard the answer of my parliamentary party to that question, and I accept that answer with good grace.

which seems to be a bit of a linguistic trick, trying to frame the PLP as the ones demanding a change in leadership rather than the country.

So it's effectively a pre-resignation speech, and we will get the proper one when he eventually leaves in a few weeks' time.

But how does this compare to other pre-resignation speeches?

Make an open spot proud.

I guess he would say that he's trying to remind people of his key achievement, which is when he took over, people were saying the Labour Party might not even exist in two years' time.

It was under investigation by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission.

We'd never seen the Labour Party get itself into that sort of state.

So he's just trying to remind the Labour Party, I guess, at that point, don't forget what I did for you, was that when I took it over, it's easy now to see, well, we're a party of government and it's easy to get on.

When I took over, that wasn't the case.

Yeah.

And it's interesting seeing that language change over a weekend from I will stand.

I guess at that point, you're kind of bluffing.

You're trying to make Andy Burnham blink or Wes Streeting or whoever.

Also, I love the idea that the Labour Party wouldn't want to exaggerate small differences.

If it's one thing the Labour Party exists to do to itself, it is exaggerate the small differences in policy between one wing and another.