Paddy O’Connell

And they're building, they're sort of building that up, really, to being quite a thing.

And from their perspective, you therefore wonder why,

how then that goes down with Labour MPs and what follows afterwards.

Well, and also why Number 10 would think at this stage in the game, arguing for closer alignment with the EU, which newscasters might remember he also did right at the beginning this year in our very long interview with him in the first week of January.

Why is that remotely the answer to a almost uniform rejection of the Labour Party in former Brexit voting areas?

Why is that the answer?

And I think we're in a situation now where the...

Pressure is very, very, very much on Keir Starmer as an individual to show that he can improve his performance and to show that he can do better.

And one senior minister said to me in the last couple of days, over to you, Keir, is what they said.

That's the sense that I'm picking up, is not people in their hordes trying to push him for the exit.

But it's like, right, you have a chance here, but we need to see...

And here that you can do things differently.

That's what union leaders are saying.

They've demanded a meeting with him this week.

They put out a very strongly worded statement.

Some of them want to definitely see him go.

Some of them want to give him one more chance.

And I think that's kind of where we're at.

And the pressure is intensely on him.

And we thought this might be where we were at last weekend.