so i offerfrom radio 4 land today gavin barwell, who was theresa may's adviser. now, of course, she saw a chance to go for an election and was then humbled by it, was then replaced as prime minister. he said the conservatives are on course for a defeat, possibly a huge one. but he said keir starmer is not loved, hasn't necessarily got the blair power. henry, what's your verdict now that all the results are in, bar the couple of police and crime commissioners? it's a terrible set of results for the conservative party. i think that's really, really clear. mark harper obviously had one of the most difficult jobs in politics today, which is to spin a terrible set of results. and he said that he thinks that the results show there's all to play for. theyjust don't. i mean, it may well be that things change. things can change. but these results do not show at all that things are changing in the public's perceptions of the conservative party. this vast quantities of the public want to give the conservative party a kicking. that is abundantly clear from the results. and,