Zoë Grünewald

Because this is all about trying to field a candidate for the soft left.

And I think the reason why we're talking about that a lot is because I think the thing that feels like it's missing from the Starmer government, I mean, there's a lot of things missing, but in terms of policy is...

those kind of soft left labor values, you know, redistribution, returning to progressive instincts over things like immigration.

I think now people are trying to find a candidate to coalesce around.

And there is definitely a raft of MPs who would like to keep West Streeting out.

So they want to find a soft left MP who can do that.

Angela Rayner is coming back in the fray as a potential.

She's got the ear of the unions.

She's strong.

You know, she's a good communicator.

She's done a lot of the good sort of more progressive stuff of this government, like the Workers' Rights Bill.

Yes.

She's got a lot of things that I think under her belt that she can point to.

The question is whether she wants it.

She got so much stick.

Well, she consistently had so much stick from the media about her personal affairs.

She still is waiting for the outcome of this HMRC investigation into her tax affairs.

So she might not want to throw a hat in the ring before that.

But, you know, her name is definitely floating around and you get the impression that she wouldn't totally be opposed to it.

The other name is Ed Miliband.