Rory Stewart

Because

What Mark Carney's proved is that if you actually can dominate the stage and communicate, you can take over a pretty horrible situation.

Canada is not objectively in a good situation.

The Canadian economy is under huge pressure.

He was inheriting a very difficult legacy.

He's turned it around, so you could do it.

The one person who obviously isn't going to be able to do it, this is my Biden analogy, is Starmer.

Starmer can't do it.

Okay, it seems to me that the objective that needs to be set out and understood

is to do a hell of a good job governing Britain for the next three years.

And second objective is to win the next election.

Okay.

I think if you take those two objectives, Keir Starmer is not the answer to governing Britain brilliantly with conviction over the next three years, and he's not the answer to winning the next election.

And once you've seen that big strategic picture, the conclusion's obvious.

Well, let's look at the Tories a little bit more sympathetically.

I mean, my guess is, hanging on to Theresa May,

probably wouldn't have worked.

They brought in Boris Johnson.

I mean, I happen to think, you know, obviously a terrible human being, terrible prime minister.

Won an election against all the odds.