Robert Peston
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I mean, there are lots of other aspects of all of this that we need to look at.
I mean, it's, you know, he talks this talk of
essentially being a socialist that also wants to have really constructive relationships with business.
We need to drill down and we need to find out what that really will amount to.
He's a massive believer in transferring more powers to mayors and to local authorities.
You and I think that's a very good thing.
Let's just see if he becomes prime minister, whether he's altogether relaxed about making himself less powerful in that sense.
Anyway, there's a lot there and a lot of it is very interesting.
And the other thing which one shouldn't forget, I mean, even though...
We haven't really talked about this today.
I would still say the consensus within the Labour Party and among Labour MPs is that Starmer will be gone, you know, maybe by the end of the year.
Nonetheless, Keir Starmer, like me, is celebrating what many thought was impossible, Arsenal's first Premier League in 22 years.
And I can tell you, as somebody who knows Keir Starmer, he will be assuming that if Arteta can do it,
he can do it and that he will survive.
What I would say about it, he is literally, Starmer is the most resilient politician I've ever come across.
And I'm not saying it's my central scenario, but the idea that Starmer could survive all this is not impossible.
How much did he pay the lad?
You can come as my guest.
Bye-bye.
He is going to fight.