Paddy O’Connell

And that was both a reflection of public sentiment, but also something that tried to push on public sentiment.

And the reform success in these elections has just been absolutely extraordinary.

Now, their overall vote share compared to last year actually went down a bit.

They have a success in terms of the number of seats and the gains that they were making.

They made huge progress from nowhere in Wales.

They made huge progress from nowhere in Scotland.

And it's been an incredible political achievement from them.

There's absolutely no doubt about that.

So this is partly about Sarmer and Labour, but it is also about the success of the other parties, Reform and the Greens, really making the most of this political moment.

Completely.

It's worth reflecting, isn't it, from the prime minister's perspective?

Because it's not that long ago that we were chasing around the country after him and his rivals in the general election campaign.

You know, there are vanishingly few Labour leaders who have won a majority at a general election.

And he is one of them, you know, in clearing a hurdle.

So few of his predecessors as a Labour leader have managed over the sweep of a century and a bit.

And yet the speed, the speed with which things have unravelled and the degree to which it is so pointed in his direction personally.

I fall over the number of MPs, Labour MPs and others, you know, others who were, you know, not of his political affiliation, who were sometimes bemused about the extent to which it feels so visceral and so personal.

With a character like Keir Starmer, who you might conclude wouldn't necessarily provoke such a strength of feeling, but...

The underlying issue around so many of these conversations is the reality of that being a broad-based sentiment for so many at the moment.

When do we get... We're going to the end of... I've got some newscasters' comments.