00:00And Freddie, we talk about Keir Starmer and Keir Starmer is kind of hanging on.
00:05I think it's fair to say at the moment.
00:08And why do you think he's so reluctant to leave?
00:11Is it because there's no obvious successor to Keir Starmer as I sit and talk to you?
00:18That's been the speculation.
00:19Who will come after him?
00:20Because I'm just seeing here Angela Rayner suffered a major blow to her expected run at the leadership
00:27after she failed to even hold her local election.
00:30I know there's been talks about Andy Burnham.
00:33I think that's absolutely right.
00:35The biggest problem with the Labour Party has always been their inability to kill bad leaders.
00:42The Tories have the opposite problem, which is that they kill leaders all the time.
00:47So the expectation in Westminster is that Keir Starmer is going to go now.
00:51His position is untenable.
00:53But I think what's actually going on is that Starmer will stagger on for who knows how long.
01:01But longer, I think, than a lot of people in where I am in Westminster expect now.
01:07Because Labour don't have a strong degree of talent on the bench.
01:12They don't have a strong challenger.
01:14Angela Rayner is a problem in so many ways.
01:17Wes Streeting, while strong in some ways, the health secretary is strong in some ways,
01:21but also very weak in others, Andy Burnham is the king in the north, they call him,
01:25because he's supposed to be so popular in the north of England.
01:28But he's not actually in Parliament at the moment.
01:30So there are all sorts of problems with all potential Keir Starmer replacements.
01:36And so I suspect the result will be that for the next few weeks, at least,
01:42Keir Starmer will stagger on because there's no better idea.
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