Nick Ferrari

Yes, 15,000 people died.

It was back then something for which the country was totally unprepared.

We can see now that it was a kind of precursor of all that's followed.

Nowadays, because of the recurrence of similar episodes, maybe not quite as extended as that, but they have become repeated.

People are more aware, and there is far more kind of mutual help.

Places are made available, cool zones.

Museums, for example, I'm reading today, have been opened in Lyon so people can cool down there.

There's far more air conditioning on public transport.

I was travelling around at the end of last week when it was extremely hot, expecting to be suffering on public transport.

In fact, trains were among the coolest places there were to be.

So there have been an awful lot of improvements, and that massive death toll from back then has not been repeated.

No fight at all.

Despite after the by-election win for Labour, which has put Andy Burnham on course for number 10, saying that he would fight on, we can now understand that over the course of the weekend, one of his most senior colleagues, Darren Jones, did a ring around.

He, Sir Keir Starmer, also spoke with his greatest supporter, Vic, his wife, Lady Victoria, who refers to right at the end of the speech.

And I think it was Lyndon Johnson, the former American, the late American president, who said the most important thing in politics is to be able to count.

He did the numbers.

He knew he was not going to win, so he's been forced into it.

Just while we're staying with numbers, here's something he takes away.

He got the second highest ever majority of a Labour Prime Minister and he is the shortest serving ever Labour Prime Minister.

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