‘Labour Is Screwed’ | ‘Angela Rayner To Run For Leader’ | ‘Starmer Has Ruined Economy’

Hi mate, James Price.Good morning.Head in hands on that.Look at his face.Look at the phone.

I mean, can you imagine, mate?I mean, good morning to everybody.Can you imagine Prime Minister Reina?I mean, it's just...Have we not been through enough of a century of humiliation for Great Britain already?

It would be appalling for the country, but by Christ it would make this job so much easier.It would be brilliant, wouldn't it?

You could just phone it in every day.

Just so much.And the beauty for me is, right, and actually the listeners are loving it, is I've never understood or known such shenanigans went on.So this morning we all came in thinking Wesley Watch, Wesley's going to resign.Has he got the numbers?Has he in fact done a deal with somebody like Miliband?I'll stand up and get shot down, you come in, I'll be your Chancellor.

Then there's the Burnham thing.I don't get that at all.Some people are exploring the theory that he and Starmer are in cahoots.Starmer's ready to go and wants to wait till the summer so it's orderly and lovely.And then Andy Burnham came.But now HMRC, Angela Rayner, she didn't rule outstanding, did she there?

And if Streeting puts his head above the parapet today, she'll probably do the same.

Yeah, I mean, give her one thing and one thing only, she has a reasonably high level of low cunning to hold this announcement back to the best opportunity.But that's about all she's got going for her, right?I'm not trying to be mean, but she said there, let's take on her own record, she was very successful in government.Her main job in government was to try and get some houses to be built.Labour had a target of 1 .5 million houses to build over the course of the Parliament.They built maybe 200 ,000, something like that.

I'm not not quite sure how that's going to stay on target for the next few years.So she failed there.I think in fact, the only person she managed to house successfully was herself over many different properties in her burgeoning portfolio, but apparently she's been cleared of any wrongdoing there.And then the other thing she's mentioned there was the employmentRights Bill, which if you talk to anybody with even, let's say, a quarter of a brain, let alone half of one, will tell you how unbelievably damaging that's going to be for business up and down this country.And already you've got a Labour Party who clearly don't understand business, because Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor, is the only person in that whole cabinet who's ever had a job in the private sector.

And she lied about how much that wasn't her CV.by the way.They haven't got a scooby how any of this stuff works.You've got Labour MPs saying, well, the bond markets are just going to have to get in line with us.Well, not if you keep borrowing from them, they won't.Because, you know, as Margaret Thatcher once said, to borrow and to borrow and to borrow is not Macbeth with a heavy cold, it's Labour Party policy.

I just think these people are all totally abject.I mean, it's just a bad joke, isn't it?That any one of these people could be Prime Minister.

Listen, I couldn't agree more, but I'm just loving the fact that these people cannot remember what they said.Yesterday we had Starmer on saying, this man has lied.He's holding the country to ransom.It's all about his career.There's going to be chaos.Go, man, go.

This was Angela Rayner a year ago.You've seen what she said last night to ITN.This was her a year ago when asked if she wanted to be Prime Minister.Have a listen, peeps.

Absolutely not.And I don't want to be leader of the Labour Party.I'm very happy and honoured to do the job that I do.

What kind of politician are you?You don't want to be leader of your party.

No, I'm very happy and honoured to be deputy prime minister of this country.And I've got a lot in my entry to prove that I can do the job that I'm doing and deliver on the milestones for the people of this country.That's what I'm interested in, Trevor.

You know this is being recorded, don't you?Because actually, that means one day, if you do, Somebody's going to play it back to you?

Absolutely.I'll be happy for you to play it back to me. I have no desire to go for the leadership of the Labour Party.My desire is to deliver for the people of this country who have given meopportunities beyond what I could have dreamed of.

Yes, we might be playing that then, James.That's an interesting clip.Well done, Christian.That's brilliant, isn't it?

Fantastic.I mean, what's the old joke?How do you know a politician is lying?Their lips are moving.I mean, these people, honestly, I think, honestly, the best outcome we could have is that they all manage this sort of circular firing squad of, you know, blanks, and that Starmer ends up just limping on.

Well, this is interesting, because Mike says, Jez and James, I don't know how I can bring myself to say this.But I've come to the conclusion that Starmer is really the best of an appalling breed.Now I'm going to go and slap myself repeatedly.Isn't this country in a mess?I mean, there you go.I mean, the lack of talent on that front bench, we're talking, OK, where's Streeting?

Let's strip this down because you're an intelligent man.Where's Streeting?I mean, listen, a great communicator, the optics are always good and I think he's had quite a meteoric rise.Let's not forget his parliamentary majority is just north of 600.He's in danger of losing Ilford North.But this man became Health Secretary and within three weeks had sorted out the junior doctor strike by giving them 28 % which caused many people to go, whoa!

And then we find out within that deal there were no conditions which had stopped them coming back 12 months later.That to me doesn't smack of somebody who absolutely gets it.But I could be wrong.He's on the right of the party, the Blairite wing.And we haven't even begun, by the way, Wesley, to talk about the fact the next tranche of those Mandelson emails are coming out next week and your close friendship with him.So you've got him.

You've got the self -styled king of Manchester.And by the way, I've had more messages saying that Piccadilly is more like Cracker Billy up there.And all those people who say that he's made massive differences are lying.I don't know.You've got Andy Byrne and Williamseat who apparently came down on the train first class to Euston the other day to court MPs for popularity despite the fact he's not in the Commons.

You've got Ed Miliband whose wife doesn't want him to stand but he's more shifty than a...I mean honestly I've never seen anybody look more shifty.He walks with his bottom out which I've never trusted the man doing that.I can't have that.It's no good at all.

And now Angela.

You heard there, a year ago, I never play it back.I bet she's got to stand today, hasn't she?If Wes Treating shows his hand, she's got to stand up, hasn't she, for the left?

I assume so.That's why this video of hers is coming out now.I mean, it's all a little bit relative, isn't it?Because nothing is actually going to change for the better.None of them understand the depths of the problem of the country's debt, of our weak economic crisis, of the fact that the civil service means you can't get anything done, which I suppose, given it's the Labour Party and they're full of terrible ideas, might actually be a blessing.They might be able to make things worse around the margins.

And let's talk again about their parliamentary majorities.As things stand, Red Ed Miliband will lose his seat to reform at the next election.Angela Rayner could well lose her seat to reform at the next election.West Streeting is almost certainly going to lose his seat to some mad Hamas Islamist.That's how he almost lost this time.And let's remember, of course, that whilst I think West Streeting is the best of the bunch, as a gay man, I'm not sure that the mad Islamist in his constituency are going to treat that very well, because we've seen that happen in bits of North London with certain Tory candidates when it was spread around that because they were gay, you shouldn't vote for them in certain religious communities.

there's a problem right there, and there's the people with seats and Andy Burnham doesn't even have one.If he tried to stand for it anywhere near Greater Manchester, well Reform have gone and won a bunch of the seats around there in the local elections, so how can he go and stand in the tag?

And what you're right to talk about is, because we've been talking all morning about personalities and how they're shifting change of this, Jan Ward from Newcastle makes a really good point.She says the King's speech yesterday tells you all you need to know aboutknow about Starmer and Labour.Not listening to any of us.3 million people signed a petition against digital ID.He wants to bring it in.

The Red Wall has just voted against Labour yet it takes no notice of us.No mention of social care and defence and no mention of immigration.The man, in my mind, is a traitor to the people who elected him and he should be ousted.But the truth is, and I'm not sticking up for Keir Starmer, I want him gone, would it be any better under anybody else?No, it would probably lurch to the left.And by the way, we had Labour MP, I mean, we've got the Labour MP for Ashford, Sojan Joseph, coming in next.

She's a clear Starmer supporter.I can't wait.I'm almost salivating at the opportunity.But, you know, you have to sit here and go, is the nasal knight, the dreary nasal knight, the best of an appalling bunch?But all of this goes on and the country's on its backside.I've got a voice note for us.

Nick, good morning.

Morning, Jeremy.It's Nick from Orsham.I think today could be a disaster for Starmer.We're going to get some Starmer karma.come around if he goes let me tell you mate we need a reform majority for the next election the best thing that can happen is he stays in office because he is destroying labour from the inside and reform are going to be on for a majority worst thing that can happen is they get a new leader gain some sort of popularity from the left and it all goes Pete Tom.I hope Starmer stays in personally.

I'll put up with it for another three years if we've got glory ahead of us.Cheers mate.

Interesting that Jay because I want to bring it away from reform a minute and talk about what I thought was the political performance of her lifetime and I haven't seen a performance of that for a long time and it reinforced with me yesterday that Kemi Bednok is the right person to lead the Tories but sadly at the wrong time.Did you see her take on Starmer but more specificallyStreeting yesterday?

It was glorious, wasn't it?And she is growing, obviously, in her ability at the dispatch box, which is great.But of course, William Hague was great at the dispatch box as well, for all the good it did.And I think that it might mean that you have your decent opposition to Labour where it counts in the chamber, which is great.And some of the mad legislation that we've heard announced yesterday will face proper scrutiny from the Conservatives.That's great.

Remember, some of the bills that were put forward are going to be votes at 16, which is, I think, a horrendously silly idea.You're going to have the digital idea.

So if your kid's 12 and a half, or your kid's 13, they can vote for the next Prime Minister.

Jesus.Right, well, quite.And that may even come back, I think, to bite Labour, because this is often what happens.Because those young people, if they're young boys, they might actually go and vote for right -wing parties.And young girls, because of the way that these things are splitting, will probably all go and vote for the Green Party, despite how mad their leader is.Old Hypnotits, or Zak Polanski, as some people call him.

So, you know, that may come back to bite them.But there's an awful lot of bad legislation that's coming through that the Conservatives will do an excellent job at scrutinising.We saw what happened with the, I think, very disgraceful Yeah.about what the country really wants, which is to massively reduce immigration and get out all the people who are here illegally, is Shabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary, who nobody is talking about as a potential leader, probably because she's also going to lose her seat to mad Islamists at the next election.But if she ends up leaving, you might see that Labour drop any of the half -hearted efforts they've got to reform ILR.I don't understand.

I don't understand how she hasn't had the courage of a convict since because apparently she told him on Sunday the time was up.Why is she still sat here?I took Kemi's point yesterday.You've got 100 backbench MPs who want him out who are voting through a bill for the next few months in Parliament.Doesn't make any sense.Let's just take a little click.

because people join the show the whole time.We've seen Angela Rayner, who this morning has been cleared by HMRC of deliberate wrongdoing.Conveniently, we reckon.We're on Wesley Watch, but Kemi Beynon, in the words of...I can't find it now.Oh, yes.

Yes, I can.Quentin Letts is my...I just love him.He put...Have a watch.

I suppose the health secretary has been a bit distracted lately, hasn't he?He's chanting now.Why don't you just do your job?Do your job.Even worse, Mr. Speaker, even worse, Mr. Speaker, is what isn't in the gracious speech.There's no point in him giving me dirty looks.

We all know what he's been up to.

Sorry, Matt, I can't hear that.0344991000J, she did definitely, definitely bring it to the party yesterday, didn't she?

Yeah, absolutely.God, I thought you were going to make me watch Angela Rayner for a second time there.I'm not sure I could have stomached that at this time of the morning.But it does show that...HMRC have cleared me.HMRC have cleared me. I'm just impressed that she can spell HMRC, frankly.

But look, on Kenny Padenock, she was very, very impressive there.I suppose it's very easy to do when the lot that you've got opposite you are just so abject and useless, at least when the Conservatives had these sorts of leadership contests.Some of the peoplewho were vying to take over as Prime Minister were highly impressive people, right?In 2022, when Boris left, I helped run my old boss, Nadim Zahawi's leadership campaign, a guy who founded a massive business, is massively successful, all these impressive things that he's done.Rishi Sunak, for all the reasons I think he was probably a bad Prime Minister, was a very impressive guy.

Kemi Badenoch herself ran in that contest.There were a bunch of smart and talented and dedicated people, however much the Conservatives may have started to mess up towards the end, who were there saying, look, I think I can do the right thing for the country.This lot of Charlies are just so embarrassing, Ches.Can you imagine any one of the Labour Party sitting opposite Vladimir Putin or President Xi?

No.What, what, Angela Rayner sat opposite Vladimir Putin?No.but what I just want to bring I completely agree I want to bring it back to bed not because I think it's important I thought it was an astonishing performance did you see a take on the old trout Thornberry this was extraordinary if you haven't seen this people Dame Emily Thornberry the one who's got a bitter curled lip because she was looked over by Starmer for a cabinet post, the only one from the shadow cabinet who didn't make it.She was softened with the blow of leading the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, I think, and got involved on all sorts of things with that.But she, just watch this, this is bad, even better than last time, have a watch.

It is time to be brutally honest, Mr Speaker.It is time to be brutally honest.The country is angry with the entire political class.All of us here.They are not happy with how we have been doing politics.It is time to get serious.

I will give way.I will give way.

the Conservatives would do.It's not the way to proceed.

Brilliant.I haven't seen a performance like that, and you're all going to laugh.That was Thatcher -esque to me.That doesn't mean I agree with a lot of what the Tory party are doing, and I do believe she will go down in history as the woman that was probably the boss at the wrong time.But in terms of performance in the House of Commons, yeah, brilliant.Where do you think this all leads today, mate?

AM1, do you think Streeting jumps over the wall?

I think you're probably right that Cammy Baden -Ott will go down in history as a great leader who never gets to be the boss.I'd like to be wrong about that.When it comes to Emily Thornberry as well, God, that was excellent, wasn't it?And well done, putting her in her place.And the Conservatives put out, by the way, an alternative King speech that was actually full of policies, helped, I think, in no small part by the kind of right -of -centre, think -tank world full of great ideas.Speaking of great ideas, West Streets will have to go over the top today.

because otherwise he will look like someone who bottled it.He'll look like a coward.And I think that's right that he does because power is never given.It has to be taken.I think that's a lesson that you can learn all through history.I think Streeting will not get it.

I think Rayner will not get it.

Do you think she will show her hands when he does today because of the timing of this?I mean, I would.She's must have put that out deliberately to be the precursor, don't you think?

You got it.You got it.I think that's it.And then those two will have a big old bun fight with each other.each other.And then in the end, the party will look around, there'll be no one else and it will go to Red Ed Miliband, the scourge of the British economy.

And you can expect some very cold winters for the next few years if he's in charge.Apparently his wife doesn't want him to stand.Have you heard that?Well, good on her.We should do a crowd funder to help her.even more kitchens than the two kitchens it was discovered that he had when he was Labour leader last time around.

The guy is a complete muppet, not just in his looks, obviously I just mean in the content of his character.He is a mad leftist who does not understand anything about the private sector.We can dredge up all this stuff from when he was leader last time.He once sat in a meeting and said, why do public businesses have to pay dividends anyway?He has no interest in how great sways of this country works or thinks or anything at all.But the guy is, as far as I can see, the person most likely to be the next prime minister.

And if that doesn't scare you and motivate you to join a right of centre political party, whichever one of the two it is that you think is best suited, then nothing will.But you need to do this because things can always change.get worse.I'm sorry to be so glum this time.

Yeah, thanks for that, Joe.That's my morning.Just a couple of things because I love your opinion on stuff, you know I do.We heard at 6 .20 that HMRC have cleared Angela Rayner of deliberate wrongdoing or carelessness over her tax fares.She has settled the £40 ,000 in unpaid stamp duty and is clear for a run at the Crown she said a year ago she didn't want.What's your view on her being cleared and the timing of today?

I suppose I've got a little bit of sympathy because my old boss, I mentioned, Zahawi, for all his, I think, massive talents, and he's a great game for reform, had a little tax imbroglio of his own.The tax system is just unbelievably complicated, right?It runs to hundreds of thousands of pages, and you lose a huge amount of money in people paying lawyers to get around all the various loopholes and things.So on a policy level, if we stripped out all the mad complexity, it would make people's lives a lot better.There'd be more money to spend on economic growth.to spend on your families, your businesses, and all the rest of it.

And I'm sure that Rainer has learned that lesson the very, very hard way.The fact remains that she is a completely useless politician who didn't get any houses built herself and whose Employment Rights Bill will be even more damaging to the economy than probably any other policy other than Ed Miliband's energy policy.So she's just the totally wrong person.I do not ever see a question to which Angela Rainer is the answer except in a pub quiz question.

But you do believe that she'll run now because of the timing of this announcement?

Yeah I think so and then they'll all go for it and it'll be a sort of stampede in a kind of weird socialist three musketeers, one for all and all for one.They'll all go for it and it'll be even more un -edifying and embarrassing for the rest of us to watch.

Whilst the country's in trouble.Now what I need from you very quickly is a bit of advice.You are a special advisor and I see looking through the studio glass I've got a Labour MP coming next.Give me a question.A star must support her.What would you like me to ask Shojan Joseph?

I think seeing if she agrees with Diane Abbott or some of her other colleagues about the bond market.Will the bond market just have to get in line with the government, as some Labour MPs are saying?Maybe let's get a decision about what the bond market actually is, because it doesn't seem that anyone in the Labour Party knows this.These are the people to whom we keep borrowing money because Labour keeps spending money.And as the great blessed Margaret once said, the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.

Amazing.I think I'm going to employ you.

Mate, you're a legend.

We love having you.