Wes Streeting

And the other thing I weighed up the other week when I resigned and, you know, it wasn't it was primarily if I go now.

Andy Burnham's about to have a by-election.

This will look completely self-serving and it would be completely self-serving.

It's not the right thing to do.

But the other thing is, a lot of the people who supported me are serving ministers.

So you'd end up actually replicating some of what we saw under the Conservatives, where you have like an education secretary, like three education secretaries over three days or whatever it was under the Tories.

So if Keir is putting the country first...

And he believes he's the best person to lead the party in the country.

Give your ministers the freedom to nominate whoever they want without causing that instability of people having to leave their jobs.

And it will be very interesting to see whether 100% of ministers or indeed 100% of the cabinet want this prime minister to continue.

Would you serve in a Burnham government?

Yeah, of course I would.

Yeah.

Well, I'd like Andy Burnham to serve in my government.

It's a bit, no, I think consistent with what Andy just said there on question time, like let's not get ahead of ourselves.

I'm like, I'm the underdog in this race.

I know that, but I've also got an argument.

I've got ideas and I've got a pitch that I want to put to the party.

If I'm the best candidate, I'll win.

If there's a better candidate, I can take it on the chin.