00:00But, Paul, my big question is, lots of people are coming out today.
00:04Yes, Anasawa has come out.
00:06He says, you know, it's a hard decision for him.
00:09Starmer was a great friend, but things are just not going quite to plan,
00:14which is quite clear to see.
00:15We've also heard from Kemi Baden-Ock, the leader of the Conservative Party,
00:20talking about Labour in a psychodrama.
00:24But my big question to you is, Starmer's right-hand man,
00:27who was, of course, Morgan Mac Sweeney,
00:29just the scapegoat right now in the appointment of Peter Mandelson
00:33as the U.S. ambassador?
00:35Because let's be honest, between you and me,
00:38the final decision would have been with the Prime Minister,
00:42Keir Starmer, and this was a bad judgment from him.
00:46And he seems to not always make the right decision.
00:50It was a bad judgment by him.
00:53But one of the things I would say,
00:54since we're just speaking privately between you and me,
00:57having been an advisor at number 10 to more than one Prime Minister,
01:02one of the things that I think has been disappointing in Britain
01:05in the last couple of years
01:07is we've had the rise of the super advisor.
01:10And the super advisor is Dominic Cummings under Boris Johnson
01:18and Morgan Mac Sweeney,
01:21who have done more to promote themselves
01:25than necessarily their courts.
01:28Now, the fact of the matter is,
01:30yes, of course, Peter Mandelson was a mistake.
01:32And I do believe it is correct that Morgan Mac Sweeney has gone.
01:40But as somebody who is an advisor
01:42and was very proud to be an advisor,
01:44you have to get a team together that supports the principle.
01:48Now, you can question whether Keir Starmer
01:52is good enough to be Prime Minister.
01:55But I tell you what,
01:56he is good enough to be supported.
01:58And I don't think he's been supported well enough
02:01by the people who are prepared to take the shilling to do that job.
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