Sienna Rodgers

Maybe some people would.

People would think, you know, you still have a country to run.

But yeah, it was a big, big moment.

He's been busy.

So he's a new MP.

He has all of the stuff that a new MP has to sort out, like an office and working out where everything is, even though he was in Westminster before.

He also has the Greater Manchester mayoralty by-election, which he triggered, and he's sort of duty-bound to support.

So he's been there today supporting the candidate, Bev Craig, with her campaign.

Yeah, but then I think that there's a sort of twin track priority thing going on beyond that.

So Andy Burnham's team are actually not taking it for granted that he's going to go unchallenged, even though that is our working assumption.

But they're trying to compile the biggest list of Labour MP nominations that they possibly can.

Yeah, and so that if there isn't a contest...

It feels like he has just a resounding mandate that no one can question.

So there's a real effort to bring MPs in, particularly 2024 intake Labour MPs who didn't overlap with him in Parliament.

He's been trying to meet a lot of them, speaking to MPs privately about his vision and what he wants to do.

It's been a lot of outreach.

And then...

This is the main bit, which is he has three weeks to prepare for being prime minister.

And so he needs to come up with who his cabinet is, who his team behind the scenes is, a whole policy program, a plan for his first 100 days.

And I gather that's been really, really frantic.