Mick Lynch

One, trying to get people to stand aside.

You have to get, I think it's 81 MPs to nominate you on a nomination paper.

And there are 405 Labour MPs, which is an enormous amount.

So there's a lot of phoning around to do.

And it could be, there is a scenario where

People may not get the backing, and some people say, look, we're not happy with this.

We might have to carry on with Keir Starmer, which will make him a bit of a winged bird, really, and we'll have to see how he gets on with that.

But the verdict of the people last week was they don't want Keir Starmer.

They want a change, and if Labour can't even manage to deliver that change, they'll be in real problems.

But it's very serious.

They have to get their act together.

Otherwise, we'll have the prospect of Labour collapsing and there's a very strong possibility of a reformed government, a nationalist government on a very right-wing agenda, which will do severe damage to this country, I think, and to all the communities that are in it.

Yeah, so, well, I was born in Paddington in central London, next to Kilburn.

The two places are joined together, which is...

renowned as one of the centres of London Irish activity, but like a lot of people, my parents came because of lack of prospects, and they both came during the Second World War in 1941 from separate places.

My mother was from near Cross McGlen in South Armagh, from a farm, one of 11 children, and my dad came from the inner city cork on the south side near St Finbar's, Barrack Street, if people know it, up that way, and he was one of six, and

Out of those two families, only one from each family stayed in Ireland, so that was the prospect.

And it's a similar story for all my friends.

I mean, my wife's exactly the same story.

Both her parents were from farms in the west of Ireland, and only one... I think out of 32 siblings that my children have as ancestors on both sides of the family, only four remained in Ireland, so...