Rory Stewart

And equally, I think if you weren't as close to it as you obviously are, and you were really stepping back to ask some nerdy large language model, these are the facts, what should happen?

I think the conclusion is obvious.

In a sense, a scenario where Starmer tries to cling on for another three years, he doesn't know how to communicate.

It doesn't matter how many speech coaches he's got, how many new speech writers he's got.

He doesn't know how to communicate.

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.