Rory Stewart

You know, we used to be a great ally and has basically been insulting Starmer saying he's not been strong enough.

And to be fair, John Major would not be tempted to do that kind of thing.

He's been much more careful, hasn't he?

I mean, the interventions from people like Major were very, very limited.

Certainly when we were in government.

I mean, you were not worried.

Yeah, until Boris Johnson.

But that's because he had been very loyal with Cameron and May.

And with Johnson, he thought he'd completely overstepped the mark on Brexit.

So when Major decided to do it, he was putting the boot into somebody he thought was a terrible prime minister.

So very, very odd.

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Just to be mean for a second, I mean, is it really, if you were listening to that and he was sitting in Downing Street in the comms department listening to you, would they not be saying,

come off it, Alistair, for God's sake.

I mean, every time a minister said to you, oh, I didn't realize it was going to be a big thing in the newspapers, you would say, grow up, you're a senior politician, you know exactly what you're doing.