Nish Kumar

He's insisted that he knew him well.

Others have described it as a friendship.

He wrote in The Guardian and said that he wanted to respond to a weekend of smear and innuendo and implications that he had things to hide.

In the messages, he wrote off his own re-election chances.

He accused the government of not having a growth strategy.

When asked for his thoughts on Israel's genocide in Gaza, he admitted, Israel is committing war crimes before our eyes.

Now, if you believed that Israel was committing war crimes and you were at the heart of the

the British government, surely you have some moral responsibility to say that publicly and not in a private conversation on WhatsApp.

That is absolutely astonishing.

He might have scuppered his leadership chances.

There's nobody else that's really been able to stick their neck on the line.

So Angela Rayner has actually had to do some firefighting of her own because, according to The Guardian, a website, AngelaForLeader.co.uk, briefly went live in January.

Now, she's claimed that it was a false flag operation.

The Guardian is reporting that she'd been planning a leadership bid with private polling and fundraising.

Allies close to her say she has no intention of moving against Alma and she has recently offered to help HMRC speed up its investigation into her tax affairs.

My belief this week has been that if Angela Rayner had not been caught up in this stamp duty tax scandal where she sort of used a trust allegedly to avoid paying stamp duty tax on a property she was buying, my feeling is without that she'd be prime minister right now.

Sure.

Yeah, I'm not running for leadership.

Yeah, yeah.

Listen, we should just say, ever since we just reviewed that clip of Keir Starmer talking about how I know that you're interested in cost of living and saying to people that I know that this is the number one issue for you, that is what we should be talking about.