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Well, Keir Starmer is still fighting to stay on as British Prime Minister as he meets the Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, this morning.
One of his likely leadership rivals, the pressure continues to mount on the UK Prime Minister as growing numbers of MPs within the party call for him to resign.
I'm joined now by Channel 4 presenter, Matt Fry, who has, like all of us, been watching this unfold all week, Matt.
So, Wes Streeting was in there this morning for 16 minutes now.
I see the pictures of him walking out of Downing Street now.
They're being replayed again and again.
He looks pretty stony-faced, but we don't know what happened, do we?
But there are problems facing all of his potential challengers, aren't there?
I mean, we have Angela Rayner with her tax issue and we have Andy Burnham who doesn't have a seat.
And Wes Streeting doesn't seem to have the support of the Labour Party members.
I thought his announcement of this meeting was really clever, by the way, last night.
He just said he was meeting the prime minister.
We got no details as to how it was going to go.
So full focus on West Streeting.
And maybe that was strategic, like flying a kite.
Now, the other thing, by the way, just the Andy Burnham question, because all of the analysis I read is he is most likely to win and probably would provide the greatest threat or challenge to Nigel Farage.
Can he only run for the Labour Party leadership if he has a seat?
Is there no other way?
not particularly and then in the middle of all this you have King Charles going in to make the King's speech there was some reporting last night that suggested that the palace had said can you just leave us out of this well how do you leave him out of it he's got to walk in there and face all of this well
Not for the first time, though.