Sam Coates

There is a very real question on that.

The ability of the Prime Minister to command a majority in the House of Commons over key pieces of legislation is under question.

He has not been able to do that repeatedly over the last year.

That is a key precondition.

Now in place, not in place in the late 2000s, the ability to drive through Cabinet decisions that are difficult, again, under threat, under fire, whether it's migration, whether it's

whether it's the dissent even over obscure things like Hillsborough, there is significant cabinet dissent and there is a very real conversation amongst Labour MPs about whether or not they'd be better off with someone else.

So I do think the conditions are different.

It's not prediction, but some of the preconditions for exit have... Sam, look, you know...

So can I agree and disagree?

Do whatever you like.

OK, well, let's put a bit of that in the bin.

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

Why do I think that?

Because that's what we watched yesterday.

That's what we watched when Boris Johnson was defenestrated.

That's what we watched when Liz Truss was defenestrated.

Now, you might say Labour is different.

I think politics is different.

And if people are hanging on this idea that Labour parties don't dethrone their leaders, I just point to the bigger change political circumstance.

And so I don't know.