Mick Lynch

Good morning.

Well, it's a bit of a mess and it has been a mess for a while.

But it's more of a mess, I think, because people don't seem to have got their ducks in a row, as they say, to sort out whether they can actually get into the race.

So, I mean, Henry summed it up very well there.

Andy Burnham was seen as a sort of shining light of what's called the soft left.

in the Labour Party, but he's a bloke who's stuck in the car park while the race is about to get underway.

Yeah, it does feel a bit like that, doesn't it?

So it's all a bit confusing.

People think that Wes Street should have declared by now and thrown his hand in, but the longer he waits, the less credibility he has.

I'm assuming that he will go ahead with that today.

If he doesn't, I think he'll have a credibility problem.

But there are also other people

that weren't mentioned.

The Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, is seen as a sort of representative of sort of hardline blue labour.

There's this new concept of blue labour, working class, socially conservative, but economically left wing, factored in the party.

And then Ed Miliband, who was former leader a few years ago, could come into it.

And of course, Keir Starmer himself,

will be able to run he'll be automatically on the ballot paper if there is a contest and it's not you know it's not out of the realms of possibilities that due to the voting system which is a preference system where you've you know you pick your candidates one two three four he could pick up other preferences and come through similar to the system in Ireland he could come through on the

Decadal third round.

It's all to play for.