Peter O'Dwyer

Or at least tell me what you think.

And I will kind of nod and say, I don't disagree with it.

I think that is probably the only way that that job can be done in an effective way.

I think if you were maybe the British government or Boris and you heard that, you'd say the job is go in.

Here's the line you were told to say and say it again and again and again.

Yeah.

But I think in the real world, the way he approached it, that kind of soft power, that trying to feed back, well, if we can meet them halfway on this, then I think they'll do something for us here.

And I suppose the proof is in the pudding.

He was pretty effective.

We were able to kind of revisit the protocol and get something over the line there that got Stormont back up and running.

And it was interesting when he touched upon that in answer to your question about Farage and whether we should be preparing, and he certainly thinks we should be, which was interesting.

We might actually, yeah.

Our policy editor's on holiday this week, but we'll get him back.

On Starmer, I thought he was actually interesting because on the one hand, he was pointing out the clear deficiencies as he sees them in what Starmer has done to date.

But he said at one point, from a kind of policy or platform position, he actually feels they're not too far away from where they ought to be.

They just...

burnt their political capital early and made some missteps in the first couple of budgets, probably weren't on the money.

But his analysis of Blair's analysis and analysing the analysis, but I think he's right on that as well.

Like Blair was very gung ho, you know, embrace AI deregulation, et cetera, et cetera.

I think Starmer's kickback against that in part was correct.