Paddy O’Connell

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.

When I say we're recording at 20 past two, she's not going to call for him to go this weekend unless something really unexpected happens.

She's not going to call for a timetable.

She's not going to call for a contest.

What I expect is that she'll say something about the sort of direction of the party.

But this weekend is not then turning into a maximum moment of jeopardy for the Prime Minister because none of the contenders who want the job have said, out the way, I'm on.

I think that's right.

So Andy Burnham was doing a charity football match last night in which it was let be known that he'd scored two goals.