Paddy O’Connell

And I still sort of got those two questions in my head that where is the evidence that Keir Starmer actually can do things differently and improve his performance?

Now, one cabinet minister said, look, actually, he's the most adaptable person and he's an extraordinary survivor.

You know, he's incredibly resilient.

He knows he's really in the doo-doo.

Worked for Jeremy Corbyn, then sacked him.

Right.

Worked for Jeremy Corbyn, then sacked him.

Worked with Morgan McSweeney, then sacked him.

Worked with Sue Gray, then sacked her.

All of those things.

But whether the prime minister is capable of really upping his own game, right?

Where's the evidence of that?

I don't know.

He's done lots of things like sacking people.

But actually, where's the evidence that he can really change his government's performance?

As a couple of MPs have said to me this morning and in the last 24 hours last night as well, from their perspective, their fear is that these interventions make things worse, not better.

Because they see there was a lot of grumbling about the article in his name in The Guardian this morning.

and let's see how what he was saying to me in that pool exchange goes down because certainly the perspective from some after what he said yesterday morning was that it was doubling down in the minds of some Labour MPs their fears about a lack of capacity to change in the way that they would like rather than it being this new incarnation.

You can become a Prime Minister in the United Kingdom without a general election and one man who did that was Gordon Brown.

And it's quite common for this to happen.