. >> is dup news. >> is dup news. >> reporter, adam cherry. adam, what more can you tell us? it's all being litigated out in the open on social media, isn't it? it's back and forth, back and forth. and today you have rupert lowe saying he'd like to go for dinner with nigel farage and saying he's been rebuffed previously trying to settle this. it seems like rupert lowe suggestion is that he tried to do this privately, had frustrations with the party infrastructure and access, and was getting nowhere, so then tookit was getting nowhere, so then took it public. and now here we are. i don't i don't quite see what's next for him because there's only five of them in the comments. and if he is now an independent and we've only just had this election, if you can believe it, i know it seems like a lifetime ago, but it's only been, what, six, 7 or 8 months or whatever it is. so now he has to sit there as an independent whilst his former colleagues are calling the police on him. well. >> that's what i was going to ask yusuf. >> now, what's his role in all of this? >> yeah. well, he's th