Stephen Pound

Good morning to you.

I've had much sleep.

I haven't had any sleep.

Well, for Keir Starmer, what it means is a huge difficulty, possibly existential threat that we face.

Look, what's happened in the Labour Party, we're used to facing the threat from the right.

It's been a left-right for.

We're now in retail politics when I'm sort of pick and mix with five different parties.

And so the sensation we got, I got last night at the count in my own borough.

It was, you know, ashes to ashes, dust to dust.

If the left don't get you, then the right wing must.

Because we're facing two different competing forces.

And it's very, very difficult to fight against that.

But at the moment, I'm terrified to go to sleep because although less than a quarter of the results in GB have actually been declared, we've got Wales and Scotland to come.

And those could be seismic.

That could be incredibly important.

What it means for Keir in the short term is that one or two people, like Jonathan Brash up in Hartlepool, will make some remarks that some might seem as intemperate.

Diane Abbott, of course, has hit the Twitter waves immediately and made a few comments.

But the reality is that we have a huge job to do.

A lot of us in the Labour Party are quite terrified about the implications.

of a reformed government, in all honesty.