Paddy O'Connell

about what Netanyahu does. There are very strong feelings on the left and have been for a long time about how important it is to recognize Palestine. That's something that this government did. But in terms of handling this issue of how you protest in such a charged environment, it's been very, very difficult for them indeed. There's no question about that.

erityisesti Labour Partyn recent history of what happened under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, which is now going back a decade. But there's a very painful episode where for a long time, many people in the Labour Party and outside the Labour Party felt very strongly that antisemitism was wrong.

pysyvät vahvasti, eivät olleet käsitelleet tarpeeksi, ja että ihmiset, jotka arvostivat palestiinalaisten oikeuksien pysyvän, olivat joskus valmiita nähdä toisella tavalla, kun se tuli ihmisille, jotka käsittelevät itse asiassa todella huonosti ja huonosti väärästä näkökulmasta ruotsalaisille ihmisille. Ennen kuin litigaatioitiin niitä vuosia ja vuosia, jotka menivät tuohon asiaan Jeremy Corbynin puolustuksessa, se koko ristiriita,

And quandary for political leaders is right back under our noses again. And it's played out in the last couple of days, not this time between Jeremy Corbyn and his political opponents, but between Keir Starmer and Zach Polanski, who now of course is the leader of the Greens in England and Wales. And he has been accused.

particularly vehemently in the last couple of days, but actually also in the last couple of months, of allowing in his party a level of debate that does tolerate anti-Semitic views. He, of course, denies that. You mentioned the issue of his tweet. He's apologised for resharing that post, and we should just read his statement. He says, I accept that social media is not the appropriate channel for doing so. I've invited Mark Rowley to meet with me to discuss the police response, but more broadly, he would always say...

In a moment we will shamelessly plug our hours on Sunday on broadcast, but you are also writing a sort of whispers on the wind piece about the prime minister's position. A little bit more than whispers on the wind, but yes, I mean, I do think it's important that we say that the elections next Thursday are not just about whether or not Keir Starmer is going to get his P45. Right, let's just put that out there on the record. These elections are about all sorts of important things, not least who collects your bins. However...

There is a hugely important political lens for all of this, which is the prime minister has been in doo-doo for a very long time. And if these elections are as bad for Labour as most pollsters predict they will be, i.e. pretty catastrophic, then it is possible, not necessarily likely, but possible that Paddy in seven days time is sitting in these seats. You and me will be talking about a challenge to the prime minister.

What's interesting is that this morning allies of the prime minister have made it very clear to me that he will do, and I quote, no deals, no timetable, no pacts. He will be running the country concentrating on that instead of going into a membership contest where he'll talk to the members for many months on end. So if people try to challenge Keir Starmer, his allies are making it clear this weekend or trying to make it clear that they would be running into a brick wall.

Correct. And that's what happened to Theresa May. So after the long list of calamities that befell her administration, in the end she said, OK, well, give me a bit more time. I understand none of you think that I'm allowed to hang around till the general election. And hey, fair enough, but I'll give you a timetable. I'll get certain things done and then I'll agree to go at some point.

Mutta Keir Starmer ei ole kuitenkaan järjestänyt sitä, ja hänen ystävät ovat olleet hyvin yksinkertaisesti, kuten minä sanon, yrittäneet saada tuon viikonloppuun seuraavaa viikonloppua. Toisella puolella spektrumilla on myös erilaisia isoja asioita.

suosittelemaan, vaikka se on kauniinkin hienosti suunniteltu, kun yksi asiaa, joka on tapahtunut, on se, että Street Singin yrittäjät olivat rauhoittaneet joitakin hänen ystäväänsä ja ystäväänsä karaokea laulamalla, että en voi odottaa, että olen iso. Hohoho, miten me kaikki laulaamme. Metafora-alerti. Mutta toinen asia, joka minulle tuli, oli se, että olisi jonkinlainen revertiivinen käsitys Norjan Labour Partyn ja Southern Labour Partyn, Angela Burnhamin kanssa.

Angela Rayner ja Andy Barnum. Olin kertonut, että he muuttuvat yhdessä.

Voisi olla, että hän olisi leaderin, joka yrittäisi saada valitsemanifestin 2024. Andy Burnham löytyisi Westminsterin ja tulisi takaisin järjestelmään. Hän olisi käsiteltävä Lähi-Piirin pohjalta. Sitten hän sopii seuraavaan järjestelmään. Minulle sanottiin, että hän olisi yksityiskohtainen, järjestelmällinen ja todellinen. Hän olisi järjestelmällinen ja todellinen.

Mutta se antaa sinulle tuntia monista ja erilaisista teoreista, jotka tekevät tämän kerran, mitä voi tapahtua viiden päivän aikana. Se on erittäin mielenkiintoista. Ja tiedän, että meidän täytyy lopettaa tämän jakson, mutta hieman nykyistä tarinaa, kun Theresa May meni.

It sprung back to life under a different leader and they got a thumping majority. And after all of that talk of the splintering political system, lo and behold, we had the two party system roaring back with one party getting a thumping majority, which looked very much like a traditional red v blue punch up.

One of them had a very healthy majority. And were it not for the pandemic, how Boris Johnson ran his life and various other things, well, it looked at that point like history might have been very different. Which is a good reminder of why predicting anything too far in advance in politics is a fool's game. But it keeps a lot of people in work, doesn't it?

So tomorrow you've got every political leader in the country in 60 minutes. In the world, yes. At 9am on BBC1. And also we're going to hear from a big boss of a big travel firm who accuses some airlines of profiteering with the oil price gyrations. Well that is convenient because we've got the Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander with us for the government. So obviously the scarcity and the expensiveness of jet fuel is something that could cause a lot of problems for newscasters in the summer. So we'll hear tomorrow how the government is hoping...

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