rayner said she was having none | of it and she had huge concerns| previous association with jeffrey epstein. famous for that, too, of having, you know, they think that's because she does have a really good sense of where many people's hearts and minds are. that's also the reason some people don't like her, with rayner and all sorts of other people who are, voter or the labour activist. who know keir starmer very well, is of somebody so, patrick, how do you reflect on that? i mean, is that the impression that you got? yeah, definitely. with afterjeremy corbyn was suspended in 2020, is what they recall him saying. talk about, i think. well, the thing is, of course, that morgan mcsweeney won the fight with sue gray. being his chief of staff couldn't last very long. type of manager rather than a big political leader. well, i wouldn't be very happy if i was keir starmer sitting i mean, there are very, very extensive briefings named in the book who helpfully talk to you. but ijust wonder, how much stink do you think this is going to kick up? upon is what is self—evident to a lot of people

. >> i mean, angela rayner, the deputy prime minister, apparently is minded to allow this thing to gohead. what's your reaction to that? >> it'll be the biggest kowtow in in british history. it'll be us on bended knee, maybe on our faces, saying to china, please, please, please, just give us some trade. they're not going to do anything about that. and by the way, they're about to dump elect cheap electric cars on the uk market. europe is looking at tariffs on those. we aren't at all. we have become absolutely facile and i worry about that enormously. i say to the government, you're taking the wrong course. it doesn't work with china. china doesn't care about the uk. they just want to grow and to be dominant. >> and are you as suspicious as others are that they want to strategically be in others are that they want to strategically

do you remember that where he and labour colleagues, including angela rayner, gathered for lagers and curries? remember this? there he was, the leader of the opposition at the time, swigging from a bottle, raising concerns that he wasn't working at all. he was actually eventually given the all clear by durham police for that meeting. he got away with it. but all of this matters because keir starmer was the first person during covid to demand the government went harder and faster with draconian rules, and he proudly boasted how we should all stick together and stick to them, regardless of how insane they were. >> you cannot be a law maker and a law breaker, and it's time to pack his bags. >> as always, a tweet isn't there or a receipt to go back to. the shadow paymaster general, richard holden, has written to the pm today to demand an investigation into this new voice coach scandal. he wrote, it's clear from these revelations that not only have you misled the public, but you had a casual disregard for the law. and we are, i'd like to say, now reliably informed. tonight, there could be