Paddy O’Connell

And there we are.

The whole thing is complete.

I've completely forgotten what I was going to say now.

What was I going to say?

I can't remember.

I'm too busy with the Wombles of Wimbledon.

But here, Paddy, you make a good point by bringing Andy Burnham in because this, frankly, is a thing that is keeping Keir Starmer there for now.

Yes.

Is that just as there is not necessarily evidence from the track record that Keir Summer is capable of enormous changing himself, there is still no evidence that any other candidate or contender for the job is ready to go.

Andy Burnham is not an MP.

There are also plenty of people who say that he should not take for granted the idea that people would greet him as a northern messiah.

And oh, by the way, look what happened to the votes for the Labour Party in the northwest of England yesterday.

They got absolutely pasted.

So just as the question is for Keir Starmer, is Andy Burnham the answer?

Don't know.

Now, my sense is, though, that a lot of the people involved in putting forward this sort of timetable notion are,

are trying, as it was described to me yesterday by a senior figure, to basically give time for Burnham to get a seat back in Parliament.

But imagine how much money reform would throw at trying to beat Andrew Barnum in any by-election.

So they're not ready.

Angela Rayner, I understand, is going to make some form of statement, possibly in the next couple of hours.