Raf Baer

Number 10 just said, well, you're all basically predictable lefties.

You don't get it.

Shut up.

Do what you're told.

It was just such a misjudgment of the presentation of it, the mood, who the people were who were worried about this, why they were worried about it.

And he just lost the parliamentary party over that and never really got it back.

Yeah, it was bad enough when people started to think, well, you know, we're losing a lot of vote share to reform and Nigel Farage is insurgent and this is damaging.

And then they start to see also coming from their left flank, the green surging.

And if you're an MP facing a green challenge, you think, well,

Why aren't we the leading progressive party in this country?

And there are a couple of things that fell into that.

I think, you know, the Prime Minister's earliest interventions around Gaza were just at the best that can be said.

They were tone-deaf, tin-eared, and then had to row back eventually, but really upset a lot of people.

gave people the impression that he just didn't really understand the seriousness of what was happening there.

And then obviously on the immigration policy, separate to how much of it could have been a perfectly sensible, workable way to reform the immigration system, the tone around it felt so obviously presented to try and appeal to reform voters.

And then the prime minister makes this speech.

So when you have the phrase redolent of Enoch Powell, it just told a lot of Labour MPs they were never going to be able to go to their constituents or to their activists or to their people, the core centre-left liberal progressive tribe and go, we are with you.

We are the main body for your kind of values in this country.

And when you've got Zach Polanski coming up on the left and Nigel Farage attacking you from the right, that leftist

after a really not very wide bit of terrain that the Labour Party was standing on.