Rory Stewart

Secondly, he's really struggling to generate a stable team in number 10.

I mean, he's losing them like you can't believe.

I don't know the number of chiefs of staff he's had, heads of press he's had, let alone the number of permanent secretaries in the civil service the guy burns through, heads of foreign office.

He's not got any loyalty in the civil service.

I mean, they're all... I got a joke from a friend today saying...

Oh, yeah, we see it.

Yeah, local elections goes wrong.

Keir Starmer's taking full responsibility, civil service drawing lots on which one of them is going to have to resign, right?

And what has he actually done in policy terms?

He's not really managed to work out what the message was before the election.

It's the problem of the Ming-Fa strategy.

He didn't come in saying,

Here's my big, bold message, and I'm going to tell the voters before, I'm going to tell my MPs before, and I'm going to tell the MPs after.

Let me speak as the Labour-friendly right-winger.

There were obviously two narratives that they could pursue.

I think you're less Labour-friendly than you were and less right-wing than you were as well.

Yeah, probably both.

I actually think that one of their problems is that when they think about the right-left divide, they're fixated with reform and green.

Actually, I think there are a lot of Lib Dem Tory voters who could be potential Labour voters, right?

So, there are a lot of the people that we go to talk to when we go to business events and talk about geopolitics who actually were very excited by Labour before the election, thought the Tories, particularly under Liz Truss, had blown their credibility on the economy.