Sam Coates

I think that there is an element of genuine fury about where Keir Starmer is.

You think cabinet is done?

There is a very real conversation amongst Labour MPs about whether or not they'd be better off with someone else.

A leadership challenge.

That would be a pretty weird thing to do because it would ruin the UK economy.

But you've cleverly shifted to another question, which is whether or not it would be wise to do.

And there's only one candidate out there that might even improve Labour's rating, and that's...

I do not think that you automatically have to have the succession plan in place for it all to fall apart.

...resign when they mislead the public and mislead Parliament.

Are you considering your position?

Prime Minister, why do you always end up sounding like the passenger in this government rather than the driver?

Are you really expecting us to believe that a senior civil servant, off his own back, without any sort of direction about the importance of Peter Mandelson being ambassador, unilaterally overruled security vetting to approve a political appointment?

I think that there is an element of genuine fury about where Keir Starmer is.

But we can't see behind those eyes.

And I did wonder whether the outrage was solely at that ex-head of the Foreign Office, Ollie Robbins, who he'd sacked the night before we had that interview with.

whether it actually was about something a bit wider, whether it was more to do with that sense that there is at the moment that nothing is going in his direction and that the government that he wanted to lead and the tone that he wanted to set hasn't ended up being where...

We quite evidently are.

So I suppose my answer to that is, yes, he was cross.

And I don't know, but I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't all aimed at Ollie Robbins.

So...