Rory Stewart

I had this recently, actually, two days ago.

A very, very wealthy business person came up to me and said, of course, Rory, you're not going to like Nigel Farage because he's not enough for you.

He's not posh enough for you.

And they'd obviously decided that Farage was, you know, proper kind of voice of the working class, this kind of public school educated city trader, etc.

So what is it about the way in which Farage and Johnson communicate that might make the man in Burnley feel, completely wrongly, but feel that he relates to them more easily than Starman?

And I guess my final, we should wrap in five minutes, but my final- We don't want to go Joe Rogan.

My final point then will be, let's hope there's a new prime minister soon and let's hope they start doing stuff.

Let's hope they demonstrate on growth, on immigration, on AI, on values, because

probably the best way to defeat Farage is not just being slick with the communication, but actually improving people's lives.

I mean, it's maybe a bit uncomfortable because you're friends with them.

I mean, I worry that it's actually pretty weak, that cabinet.

It's not a great front bench.

And that, you know, I'm not like looking at Ernie Bevan and Nye Bevan and being like, whoa, these guys.

I'm not looking at Wilson's cabinet.

I'm afraid...

You know, we were pretty rude about a lot of the Tory cabinets, but person for person, I can name six or seven people out of Cameron's cabinet, May's cabinet, Johnson's cabinet, who are probably stronger performers than a lot of us.

Including yourself.

Definitely including myself.

So we haven't got the full Wales of Scotland results yet.

Thank you all very much for listening.