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Rory Stewart

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The Rest Is Politics
530. Is Starmer the Next Joe Biden? Rory and Alastair React to Local Elections

Check him out.

The Rest Is Politics
530. Is Starmer the Next Joe Biden? Rory and Alastair React to Local Elections

Nor could they leave those trusses for goodness sake.

The Rest Is Politics
530. Is Starmer the Next Joe Biden? Rory and Alastair React to Local Elections

So they had to move.

The Rest Is Politics
530. Is Starmer the Next Joe Biden? Rory and Alastair React to Local Elections

Now, it didn't work for them because unfortunately, Rishi Sunak got many, many talents, but he wasn't.

The Rest Is Politics
530. Is Starmer the Next Joe Biden? Rory and Alastair React to Local Elections

a great communicating, strategic, big thinking prime minister.

The Rest Is Politics
530. Is Starmer the Next Joe Biden? Rory and Alastair React to Local Elections

But the other option, which I call the Biden option, which is to be so aware of all the risks and the difficulties involved in getting rid of the leader, that you stick with someone who clearly cannot be your long-term leader, can't be the answer.

The Rest Is Politics
530. Is Starmer the Next Joe Biden? Rory and Alastair React to Local Elections

You didn't tell us this actually.

The Rest Is Politics
530. Is Starmer the Next Joe Biden? Rory and Alastair React to Local Elections

No, they don't know.

The Rest Is Politics
530. Is Starmer the Next Joe Biden? Rory and Alastair React to Local Elections

Look, of course, you're right.

The Rest Is Politics
530. Is Starmer the Next Joe Biden? Rory and Alastair React to Local Elections

And I'm I'm it's all very well.

The Rest Is Politics
530. Is Starmer the Next Joe Biden? Rory and Alastair React to Local Elections

I'm sitting here in this.

The Rest Is Politics
530. Is Starmer the Next Joe Biden? Rory and Alastair React to Local Elections

strange, beautiful studio I noticed with three of your books and only one of mine behind me here.

The Rest Is Politics
530. Is Starmer the Next Joe Biden? Rory and Alastair React to Local Elections

Yeah, that's right.

The Rest Is Politics
530. Is Starmer the Next Joe Biden? Rory and Alastair React to Local Elections

It's a percentage point, isn't it?

The Rest Is Politics
530. Is Starmer the Next Joe Biden? Rory and Alastair React to Local Elections

So you're completely right.

The Rest Is Politics
530. Is Starmer the Next Joe Biden? Rory and Alastair React to Local Elections

It will feel brutal.

The Rest Is Politics
530. Is Starmer the Next Joe Biden? Rory and Alastair React to Local Elections

And you're totally right that the two main reasons this doesn't happen is people are very worried about who these alternative candidates are.

The Rest Is Politics
530. Is Starmer the Next Joe Biden? Rory and Alastair React to Local Elections

Are they going to be any good?

The Rest Is Politics
530. Is Starmer the Next Joe Biden? Rory and Alastair React to Local Elections

Which is what I would call the, you know,

The Rest Is Politics
530. Is Starmer the Next Joe Biden? Rory and Alastair React to Local Elections

the issue around Gretchen Whitner or the issue around Kamala Harris, right?