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I haven't heard anything whatsoever, but I suspect that he's independent as he sits.

He hasn't got too many choices himself, and he finds himself in pretty much the same dilemma.

And I say in terms of what I've heard around the electorate is, yes, people have been turned off by the whole saga.

They're over it.

And so he's still very popular, put it that way.

But there's two other candidates that have been.

One that was at the last election and Tania Waikato now has come into the frame.

I reckon we should just hang off of it, see where the dice rolls a little bit more, next three or four months, and we'll see exactly where everything lands.

I don't think it's going anywhere, if I'm honest.

I think even though it sounds absolutely deluded when Keir Starmer says, I'm going to be here until 2036, which is a kind of bizarre thing to say, nonetheless, I don't think there's any mechanism by which he wouldn't be.

Because even if they did get to 82, you know, even if they did get up to those figures, who is it that's going to replace Starmer?

Yeah.

There is no possible way out for the Labour Party, and it's the Labour Party's fault.

It's got a front bench which is low on talent and which is also compromised in various different ways, whether it be through tax.

such as Angela Rayner, or through associations with Mandelson and also the right wing of the party, which is West Streeting, or by the fact that, you know, they've got 400-odd MPs and they're looking to Andy Burnham, who isn't an MP, to rescue them.

It's ridiculous.

situation.

Slightly worse.

I think it was slightly worse.

Some people are saying it was appalling, but not quite as bad.