Stephen Bush

And because it's now so uncertain that he would win a by-election, his path back does sort of rely on some people going, oh, I'm going to immolate myself both with Keir Starmer and with any other possible leadership contender.

Because ultimately, Andy is the physical embodiment of none of the other leadership contenders will do.

And then what happens if having done this, having burned a huge amount of capital for Andy Burnham, what if he then loses in St.

Helens, loses in any of the other places he could go?

Then I've burnt myself up for nothing.

And I just think one of the real problems is that Andy does still have an uncertain route back.

I'm going to sell Angela Rayner because I think it's very striking.

We haven't talked about her at all when talking about the Labour leadership.

And I suspect the reason for that is we've all had very similar conversations with different Labour MPs, which is they go, I had a terrible time on the doorstep.

Everyone hates Keir.

And they go, but the combination of the tax affairs, even if they're settled, I think loads of Labour MPs are concerned that they would still kind of hang around her neck.

And I think the very fact that you have a bunch of people going, oh, maybe we can have some kind of weird sort of Rube Goldberg machine to get Andy Burnham back, shows how much the soft left has doubts about Angela Rayner's electoral appeal.

Whether they're right or wrong is entirely irrelevant.

It's their opinion that matters.

And I think that is a real reason to suspect that her leadership hopes, at least in the short term, I think Labour would have to get much more desperate than they currently are to go, let's risk it with Ange.

Thanks, Lucy.

We've had Greens, we've had Labour, we've had all sorts.

We've had... I'll tell you what we do still have, though.

Potholes.

That's what we've got.